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Africa
Herbert Wigwe: Nigerian bank chief killed in US helicopter...
The co-founder of Access Bank, one of the largest banks in Nigeria, was among six...
State of emergency declared in Iceland after volcanic eruption
A selection of the best photos from the African continent and beyond.
Burkina Faso outcry over 'conscription used to punish junta...
In what was widely seen as punishment for his strident criticism of Burkina Faso's...
Hage Geingob: Namibia's president dies aged 82
Namibia's President Hage Geingob has died at the age of 82 while receiving medical...
Kenya femicide: Why men fail to condemn deadly misogyny
Hours before a nationwide march in Kenya against the rising cases of femicide and...
Nairobi fire: Gas blast in Kenyan capital kills three and...
A huge gas blast in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, has killed at least three people...
Will Smith surprises Guinea student who biked across Africa
Hollywood megastar Will Smith has made a surprise call to a Guinean man who cycled...
Spanish-Moroccan letters of forbidden love that were never...
Confiscated letters written to Moroccan men from Spanish women decades ago reveal...
Angola leaves Opec oil cartel in output quota row
Angola has announced it is leaving the oil producers' organisation Opec over a dispute...
Nigeria’s viral ballet boy: From Lagos to elite dance school
Dubbed Nigeria's viral ballet dancer, 13-year-old Anthony Madu's life has changed...
Blitz Bazawule - the Ghanaian who dazzled Beyoncé takes...
Blitz Bazawule, the director of a new film adaptation of Alice Walker's revered...
Niger coup leaders expel French, but not US, troops fighting...
Less than five months after Niger's President Mohamed Bazoum was deposed in a coup,...
William Ruto: The ‘tax collector’ president sparking Kenyan...
Some Kenyans are mockingly referring to President William Ruto as Zakayo - Swahili...
Kenya's discreet church set up to welcome LGBT worshippers
A church in Kenya has survived for the last decade by operating discreetly. It does...
South African hostage Gerco van Deventer freed by al-Qaeda...
Militant Islamists linked to al-Qaeda have freed a South African paramedic taken...