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Liberia’s President George Weah has honoured an 18-year-old motorcycle taxi rider who found and returned $50,000 (£36,000) to a businesswoman who had lost the cash in the north-eastern Nimba region. President Weah had met Emmanuel Tolue…

The Democratic Republic of Congo says its forces have clashed with their Rwandan counterparts near the eastern border. An army spokesperson in North Kivu province said Rwandan forces crossed into Congo and tensions culminated…

President Felix Tshisekedi has called for an audit of Democratic Republic of Congo’s vast forest concessions and the suspension of all “questionable contracts” until the audit is concluded. Home to 60% of the world’s second…

Thousands of demonstrators gathered in front of the presidential palace in Khartoum on Saturday calling for the military to seize power as Sudan grapples with the biggest political crisis in its two-year-old transition. The…

Six out of every seven coronavirus cases are not being detected in Africa, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. It has made the calculation based on a formula that looks at recorded deaths and case fatality rates. So…

South Africa's biggest engineering union, NUMSA, has rejected a new wage offer as a national strike that has already hit output at car maker BMW, BMWG.DE enters its second week on Thursday, employer body SEIFSA said.…

When Giulio Regeni's mutilated body was found in a ditch near Cairo in February 2016, it was so 'badly disfigured' that his mother struggled to identify him. Five years on, four members of Egypt's security forces go on trial in…

Top UN court ruled on Tuesday largely in favour of Somalia in its dispute with Kenya, setting a sea boundary in part of the Indian Ocean believed to be rich in oil and gas. Somalia said the ruling was a result of “sacrifice and…

A suspected commander of the Central African Republic's Séléka rebels has appeared at the International Criminal Court, for a hearing on whether to confirm charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity against him. 'Mahamat…

A rebel leader in Mozambique has been killed following an intense gun battle with government troops in his forest hide-out in central Sofala province, police said. Mariano Nhongo - who led the Renamo Military Junta - was…