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A VIDEO purported to be by Somalia’s al-Qaida-linked rebel group al-Shabab urged Muslims to attack shopping malls in the U.S, Canada, Britain and other Western countries. U.S. Authorities said there was

ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe turned 91-years-old on Saturday showing no sign of giving up power as the West slowly eases pressure on a man who has been an international pariah for the

TWO bombs exploded at the gate of the Iranian ambassador’s residence in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, although nobody was hurt in the blast, Libyan security officials said. “Two devices were laid,

LIBERIA’S leader, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Sunday urged the United States (U.S.) and other countries to keep up their support to the West African nation as it recovers from the Ebola epidemic and

AIDS has become the leading cause of death for adolescents in Africa and the second leading cause of death among adolescents globally, global health agencies said Tuesday. About 120,000 people aged

AN albino toddler has been kidnapped in northern Tanzania, police said, raising fears he may be killed and his body parts used for witchcraft. Unknown attackers broke into the house and

SOUTH Sudan government and rebel forces are both recruiting children as young as 13 to fight in the country’s civil war, a rights group has said in a report rejected by the

“COCKROACHES”, “hooligans”, “broken men” – insults flew thick and fast yesterday among top South African politicians following a keynote address by the president to parliament last week that ended in unprecedented chaos.

FOREIGNERS will be banned from owning land in South Africa under new proposals outlined by President Jacob Zuma. Locals will have limits set on the size of their farms under the

BURUNDIAN President Pierre Nkurunziza will bid for a third term in June elections, his spokesman said Sunday, defying campaigners who say such a move would violate the constitution and risk violence.