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South Sudan President Salva Kiir has reappointed bitter rival Riek Machar as vice-president as part of a peace deal aimed at ending more than two years of war, state television reported. The civil conflict erupted in December 2013 after Mr...

SAN FRANCISCO, February 11, (THEWILL) – A teacher in Jazan, Southern Saudi Arabia opened fire on colleagues on Thursday, killing at least six people and wounding two, state television reported. Saudi State TV quoted an unnamed police spokesman for the...

NATO ships are on their way to the Aegean Sea to help Turkey and Greece crack down on criminal networks smuggling refugees into Europe, the alliance's top commander said on Thursday. Hours after NATO defense ministers agreed to use their...

Hundreds of protesters marched outside South Africa's parliament on Thursday hours before an annual state-of-the-nation speech by President Jacob Zuma, whom they accuse of corruption and mismanaging the country's flagging economy. Zuma's speech, scheduled to be televised nationally at 1700...

A riot and a fire at a prison near Monterrey in northern Mexico has left 52 people dead, state officials say. Another 12 were injured in the riot at Topo Chico jail that broke out just after midnight. Smoke was seen...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has lashed out at the US over its support for Syria's main Kurdish group. The failure to recognise the Democratic Union Party (PYD) as a terrorist group was creating a "sea of blood", he said. Turkey...

Chad's President Idriss Deby has announced he will run for a fifth term in April's elections. Mr Deby took power in a coup in 1990 and later introduced elections. A referendum in 2005 scrapped a clause restricting presidents to two terms,...

Liberia's Supreme Court has stopped the Senate's attempts to jail the country's finance minister after he tried to clamp down on politicians' expenses. London-based Banker Magazine awarded Amara Konneh its African Finance Minister of the Year award in 2014. But on...

North Korea has executed its army chief of staff, Ri Yong Gil, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported on Wednesday, which, if true, would be the latest in a series of executions, purges and disappearances under its young leader. The...

A Tanzanian gambler has been stoned to death by fellow players at a casino in Kenya's capital Nairobi after he killed two of its employees, police say. The man lost his temper when he was refused an advance to try...