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The United Nations on Monday welcomed the release of 82 Nigerian schoolgirls after years of Boko Haram captivity and appealed ...

The head of so-called Islamic State (IS) in Afghanistan, Abdul Hasib, has been killed in a military raid, US and ...

Eleven migrants have died and nearly 200 are missing after two boats sank off the coast of Libya, UN agencies ...

Several hundred ex-rebels on Monday blocked access to Ivory Coast's second city Bouake, their former stronghold, seeking thousands of euros ...

Emmanuel Macron is already facing a battle to govern France after his election victory - because he does not have ...

Ghana Football Association (GFA) chief Kwesi Nyantakyi will be named as the 1st Vice President of the Confederation of African ...

The 82 schoolgirls released by Boko Haram Islamist militants have met Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari. They were escorted to the ...

The head of ISIL in Afghanistan was killed in an operation led by Afghan Special Forces in the eastern province ...

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari headed to London on Sunday for what his office said was a "follow-up medical consultation" with ...

At least 570 suspected cases of cholera have surfaced in war-torn Yemen in the past three weeks, sparking fears of ...

Pakistan's military on Sunday said it had killed more than 50 Afghan soldiers in a clash on a major border ...

Two years after the Germanwings plane crash, relatives of the South American victims have filed suit in Germany seeking over ...

Philippine police believe a Shiite Muslim cleric was the likely target of explosions that killed two people in Manila, an ...

Scores of Nigerian schoolgirls who were among more than 200 kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014 have been released, multiple ...

A former Burkina Faso president, Michel Kafando, has been appointed the new UN envoy for Burundi, where efforts to end ...

Nine Chadian soldiers were killed in a Boko Haram attack on an army post in the Lake Chad region on ...

Thirteen men accused of involvement in the murder of high-ranking police officer Andrew Kaweesi and two aides appeared in court ...

An International New York Times opinion piece criticising the powerful Pakistani army was censored by its local publisher Friday, replaced ...

Brussels is 'crossing its fingers' for a victory for Emmanuel Macron after EU officials broke with protocol to support the ...

Uber has been criticised many times over the way it runs its business Ride-sharing firm Uber is facing a criminal ...