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The authorities in Kenya have placed a bounty on three "armed and dangerous" inmates who escaped from a prison where they were being held on terrorism-related charges. The three are Mohamed Ali Abikar, Musharaf Abdalla, and…

At least 58 inmates have been killed in fierce clashes in a prison in Ecuador’s largest city of Guayaquil, according to police. Police General Tannya Varela told reporters on Saturday that an additional 12 prisoners were wounded in the…

Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in the Sudanese capital Khartoum and other cities on Saturday to protest against a military takeover, despite security forces firing tear gas and bullets to disperse them, witnesses and medics…

South Africa's last apartheid-era President, Frederik Willem, FW, de Klerk, whose role in the country's transition from white-minority rule to democracy remains hotly contested, has died aged 85. Here is what the country's…

South Africa's second-biggest opposition party, the Economic Freedom Fighters, EFF, says that FW de Klerk should not be given a state funeral as he led an "evil regime" which enforced racial discrimination in the country until its…

South Africa's last white President Dies South Africa's last white head of state, FW de Klerk, has died at the age of 85 after losing his battle against cancer. Mr. De Klerk shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela in 1993 for…

A ceremony has taken place in Benin to mark the return from France of 26 royal treasures that had been looted by colonial troops in the 19th Century. This follows an agreement between the two countries that was finalised on Tuesday in…

Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi has sacked the national defence minister, Jaime Augusto Neto. It comes just a day after the president fired the interior minister, Amade Miquidade. The president has not explained why he has…

Officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo have lifted a ban on a song that criticises President Félix Tshisekedi. The ban was announced on Tuesday by the 'censorship commission' and then lifted on Wednesday after the justice minister…

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says he is hopeful that diplomacy will work to end the war in Ethiopia. He said he had been in contact with African Union’s special envoy, former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, as well as the US…