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Egypt said Wednesday it has reached a deal with the International Monetary Fund to increase a bailout loan to $8 billion. Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly announced the news in televised comments on Wednesday. Egypt has for months…

Liberia's President Joseph Boakai has set up a task force to crackdown on corruption and to recover stolen state assets. Mr Boakai ordered it to identify and prosecute any senior officials involved. Current and past government officials…

Senegal's government has announced that the country's presidential election will take place on 24 March. The announcement follows tension in the country after President Macky Sall postponed the election last month, sparking…

  Two people reported killed in a plane crash, involving a training aircraft and a passenger plane in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, local police said on Tuesday. The incident occurred at 1005 local time between a plane belonging to a flying…

Judges at the International Crime Court (ICC) have ruled that prosecutors can bring a hearing on charges against a fugitive Ugandan warlord despite his absence. Joseph Kony was the leader of the notorious Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA),…

South Africa's navy has joined the search for a six-year-old girl which has transfixed the country. Joslin Smith disappeared from outside her home in Saldanha Bay, near Cape Town, two weeks ago. The 300 naval officers join rescuers…

Chad’s interim president, Mahamat Idriss Déby, on Saturday said he will run in this year’s long-awaited presidential race. His candidacy was endorsed by representatives of the political groups that make up his coalition, For a United…

Top army officials from the southern African regional bloc visited the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday, amid ongoing fighting between government troops and M23 rebels. The chiefs of defence staff of Southern…

Some 170 people including women and children have been "executed" in attacks on three villages in Burkina Faso, a public prosecutor has said. Aly Benjamin Coulibaly appealed for witnesses to help find those who attacked Komsilga, Nordin…

The Yaoundé military court in Cameroon on Friday closed their judicial investigation into the murder of journalist and former director of radio amplitude FM, Martinez Zogo who died just over a year ago. The trial will now open in the…