Twenty people have been arrested on Tanzania’s semi-autonomous archipelago of Zanzibar for alleged homosexuality, police say.
The 12 women and eight men were picked up...
Uganda’s State Minister of Health for General Duties disguised herself as a patient and caught two medical workers demanding a bribe for free government...
Social media platform Snapchat has blocked access to Al Jazeera content in Saudi Arabia.
Snapchat said it was asked by the Saudi authorities to remove...
The US is considering closing its embassy in Cuba after diplomatic staff reported health problems which Washington blames on a "sonic attack".
Secretary of State...
Thousands of people have fled Ethiopia's Somali region following deadly clashes in recent days between ethnic Somalis and Oromos.
The BBC's Kalkidan Yibeltal looks at...
Tunisia has abolished a decades-old ban on Muslim women marrying non-Muslims as the president seeks to secure equal rights for the country's female population.
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A 37-year-old HIV positive man from Uganda was arrested for allegedly defiling his 11-year-old twin daughter.
Salongo Christopher Kityo, a fisherman operating at Gerenge landing...
A young girl detonated a suicide bomb in a mosque in northern Cameroon early Wednesday, killing at least five worshippers and wounding others.
The girl,...
A young Nigerian girl has been arrested by the police for allegedly possessing human heads.
The suspect, Chidinma Ihuoma from Mbirichi, Igbo state was apprehended...
A dusk-to-dawn curfew has been imposed in the main commercial hub in Nigeria’s south-eastern Abia state following clashes between the military and activists campaigning...
One of Africa's most prestigious universities is investigating how 300 students managed to get their degree results changed.
Uganda's Makerere University discovered that the students'...
Eight people at a Florida nursing home that was left without power for days after Hurricane Irma have died.
Police evacuated 115 residents on Wednesday...
North Korea has threatened the United States with the "greatest pain" it has ever suffered following new sanctions imposed by the United Nations.
Pyongyang's envoy...
Opposition MPs in Kenya have boycotted the opening of the new parliament to protest against President Uhuru Kenyatta's decision to address it after a...
Togolese president, Faure Gnassingbe, has requested the cancellation of an Israeli-Africa summit scheduled for next month in the West African country, the Associated Press...
Landholders and ecologists in Australia are warning wild kangaroo levels have become unsustainable, urging Australians to eat more kangaroo meat.
Government figures show there were almost 45...
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At least 18 policemen have been killed in an attack on a convoy in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula claimed by so-called Islamic State, security sources...
Kenyatta threatens to remove Odinga if opposition wins re-run
Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has said that if his rival, Raila Odinga, is elected president in...
No fewer than 45,000 Zulu maidens participated in the Annual Reed Dance, known as Umkhosi Womhlanga in Zulu Kingdom, South Africa, after going through...
At least 80 opposition protesters have been arrested after two days of demonstration demanding the departure of President Faure Gnassingbe.
According to the Civil Service...
South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma has blamed witchcraft for his party’s failure to beat the opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) in its Western Cape stronghold,...
In October 2014, Nigeria received universal praise for its swift and efficient tackling of the Ebola pandemic which had struck West African neighbours Sierra...
Tanzania’s mining industry will come under the spotlight today as two parliamentary committees are presenting reports to President John Magufuli, after investigating diamond and...
Chicago's Mayor has declared the city a "Trump-free zone", after the US president ended protection for the children of undocumented immigrants known as "dreamers".
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A U.S. appeals court on Thursday rejected the Trump administration’s effort to temporarily bar most refugees from entering the country, ruling that those who...
