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Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has confirmed he will be appearing at the International Criminal Court in The Hague this week.

Attack is the deadliest on UN mission to West African country, as armed groups remain active in the desert in the north.

Amid the deadliest Ebola outbreak in history, it's easier to get help if you are dead than if you are alive.

My producer and I were driving back from an assignment in Monrovia, where we filmed this morning's "Good Morning America" segment, when we saw a burial team working along the roadway surrounded by crowds of angry locals.

Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau or his clone, said to have been killed in Konduga last month by Nigerian military has announced that he is alive and will die only when Allah says so.

The two-year-old boy who went missing on Saturday after a stranger in a bus made away with him has been reunited with his mother.

Abuja— President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, on the occasion of the country’s 54th independence anniversary gave his administration a pass mark for delivering on most indicators of good governance.

President Goodluck Jonathan Tuesday said that despite some positive steps taken by his administration in placing the country on the right track, transformation of the nation cannot be achieved overnight.

BABS approaches every October 1 with trepidation. The day means many things to him and brings back a lot of mixed memories.

The African continent has registered slight improvement in overall governance performance over the last five years, the 2014 Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG), launched on Monday, has indicated.

Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema says there is life outside the African National Congress (ANC) and he will continue to challenge ANC decisions.

Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema is addressing his supporters after the fraud and racketeering case against him was adjourned by Polokwane High Court to August 3, 2015 for trial.

Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo will today formally enrol as a graduate student at the headquarters of the National Open University of Nigeria in Lagos.

Residents of Asaba, Delta State are yet to recover from the shock of how a 19-year-old Godwin (not real name) allegedly impregnated his mother while testing his love charm.

Liberia's chief medical authority has placed herself in quarantine following the Ebola death of her deputy, health officials and humanitarian sources said on Sunday.

President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, at the South-South Unity Party of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), held in Benin-City, vowed that his administration will crush Boko Haram exactly the way it fought the Ebola virus disease.

Panic is spreading across an African community after reports that two Ebola victims have risen from the dead.

The victims, both females in their 40s and 60s, died of the deadly virus in separate communities in Nimba County, Liberia.

French President Francois Hollande has strongly condemned the beheading in Algeria of tourist Herve Gourdel by a jihadist group linked to Islamic State (IS) militants.

The number of deaths in Nigeria's church hostel collapse has risen to 115, including 84 South Africans, a South African minister has said.