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The French police have identified a suspected attacker who stabbed and injured six people at Paris's Gare du Nord rail station. The police say it was a Libyan national aged in his 20s who was due to be deported. Meanwhile,…

The army in Mali says 14 of its soldiers have been killed in two separate attacks in the centre of the country where Islamist militants are known to operate. Report says in both incidents vehicles in which the troops were travelling were…

The French and German foreign ministers have arrived in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. Report says the ministers came to support the peace agreement that's ended two years of fighting in the northern Tigray region. Germany's…

The Democratic Republic of Congo has condemned Rwanda for saying it will no longer take in people fleeing conflict in the eastern part of DR Congo. A spokesman for the Congolese government, Patrick Muyaya said the remarks by Rwanda's…

US rapper Meek Mill has apologised for surreptitiously filming a music video in Ghana's presidential palace, also known as Jubilee House. The star caused an uproar with the video, which saw him lip-syncing in the palace's corridors and…

Uganda's Constitutional Court has quashed a section of a communications law that had been used to prosecute journalists and critics of the government. Report says under Uganda's Computer Misuse Act, one of the sections proscribes the use…

The Egyptian government has assigned ExxonMobil oil and gas exploration rights to two offshore blocks in the outer Nile Delta, according to a company statement. Report says the company's Egyptian subsidiary will operate both blocks and…

Gabon's President, Ali Bongo has appointed the country's first female Prime Minister Rose Raponda to the role of vice president and named a new Prime Minister to replace her. Ms. Raponda is also the first female Vice President to be…

Mozambican Interior Minister, Arsénia Massingue has said that legal procedures were underway for the extradition of a suspected kidnap kingpin. This comes after the suspect was arrested on Saturday night in neighbouring South Africa.…

A suspected warlord from Sierra Leone Gibril Massaquoi has appeared in an appeals court in Finland. Report says a retrial was ordered after Mr. Massaquoi was acquitted by a lower court last year. The trial will move to Liberia next…