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Oscar Pistorius will discover his fate on Thursday, following a five-month murder trial. The double-amputee Olympic athlete denies intentionally shooting dead Reeva Steenkamp in the toilet of his home in the early hours of Valentine's Day last year, saying he mistook his girlfriend for an intruder.
African champions Nigeria look to have avoided an international ban as a row over the leadership of its football federation seems to have ended.
Sierra Leone - one of the countries worst hit by West Africa's Ebola outbreak - has announced a three-day lockdown to try to tackle the disease.
ABUJA — The United States of America warned yesterday that the reputation of Nigeria’s military was at stake while the future of the country and her children was in jeopardy following the capture of some towns in the north eastern part of the country in the last few weeks by Boko Haram terrorists.
LAGOS — The first confirmed Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, case that was also one of the three persons quarantined in Oduoha, Emohua Local Government Area, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has died of the disease.
A Form Four student has given birth to triplets at the Nyamira County referral hospital in Kenya.
A newly released video shows health workers in Liberia attempting to capture a suspected Ebola patient, who had allegedly escaped from a treatment centre on Sept. 1.
Nigeria's militant Islamist group Boko Haram has seized the key north-eastern town of Bama after fierce fighting with government forces, residents say.
Liberia's president is ordering most civil servants to stay home another month in an effort to stop the spread of the deadly Ebola virus ravaging the country.
Military units in Lesotho have surrounded government and police buildings and gunfire has been heard in the small mountainous southern African kingdom.
Kenya’s top detectives are on the trail of a gang that carjacked a police officer linked to State House identified as David Machui in Ruai, Nairobi, on Wednesday night.
Malawi's newly elected President Peter Mutharika has said he is offering an "olive branch" to ex-leader Joyce Banda after winning disputed elections.
At least 14 people have been killed in a bomb attack on a bar that was screening a televised football match in north-eastern Nigeria, police say.
ECOWAS says it has no intention of sending troops to Nigeria to fight Boko Haram. ECOWAS Chairman, President John Dramani Mahama, who made this known at a press conference at the end of the one-day extraordinary session in Accra yesterday, said already, the Nigeria President Goodluck Jonathan had assured his colleagues in the sub-regional group that he was " doing everything possible" to resolve the burning issue.
The march music stops and the camera screens come to life as 70 small black cannons fire a shower of golden confetti high above the crowds. Tumbling through the air, the shiny plume swirls in a fleeting dance, covering the ground in a sprawling blanket of gold stars.
It's a sunny April afternoon at the University of Rwanda College of Education in Kigali. Some students huddle in groups conversing in hushed voices; others hurry between buildings carrying books. Exams begin in a week.
Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has vowed to wage a "total war" against militant Islamist group Boko Haram.
International medical aid teams are to arrive in eastern Sierra Leone to try to deal with an outbreak of the deadly and highly contagious Ebola virus.
