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WHO declares Guinea free of Ebola

Guinea has been declared free of Ebola by the World Health Organisation. It means there have been no new infections for 42 days. Tow-and-a-half thousand people...

Boko Haram kill 30 with rocket-propelled grenades and suicide bombs

30 people were killed when Boko Haram Islamic extremists struck the north-east Nigerian city of Maiduguri with rocket-propelled grenades and multiple suicide bombers, witnesses...

Boko Haram violence forces a million children from school

Attacks by Islamic extremist group Boko Haram in north-eastern Nigeria and neighbouring countries have forced more than one million children out of school, heightening...

Car bomb blast outside shopping centre kills two in Mogadishu

Two people have died in a car bomb blast in the Somali capital Mogadishu. Police officer Ahmed Hassan said the parked car exploded outside a...

87 killed as violence escalates says Burundi army

Violence from co-ordinated attacks on three Burundian army installations killed 87 people, an army spokesman said, showing the escalating turmoil over the disputed third...

Muammar Gaddafi’s son kidnapped in Lebanon

The son of Libya’s late leader Muammar Gaddafi has been kidnapped by militants in Lebanon. They are demanding information about the fate of a Shiite...

16 killed in Cairo firebomb attack

A firebomb attack in Cairo has killed 16 people and wounded three others, authorities said. Police are looking for two young men who carried out...

VIDEO: Oscar Pistorius convicted of murder

A South African appeals court has convicted Oscar Pistorius of murder, overturning a lower court’s manslaughter conviction. The double-amputee Olympian had previously been convicted on...

African troops free 900 hostages held by Boko Haram terror group

Troops have freed 900 hostages held by Nigeria’s Boko Haram extremists, killed more than 100 fighters and arrested 100 others, Cameroon’s government said. Issa Tchiroma...

Two suicide bombers kill at least five in North Cameroon

Two female suicide bombers detonated their explosives in a town in north Cameroon, killing at least five people and injuring 12 others. Colonel Jacob Kodji,...

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