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Authorities in Burkina Faso have charged a general who led a failed coup in September with complicity in the 1987 assassination of President Thomas Sankara, senior security sources told Reuters. Sankara's murder is one of the most high-profile killings in...

A knife attacker slashed a man at an east London metro station, reportedly screaming "this is for Syria", in what police described as a terrorist incident, prompting a senior minister to urge Britons on Sunday not to be intimidated...

A South African appeals court on Thursday convicted Oscar Pistorius of murder, overturning a lower court's conviction of the double-amputee Olympian on the lesser charge of manslaughter for shooting girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp to death in 2013. Justice Lorimer Eric Leach...

SAN FRANCISCO, December 02, (THEWILL) – No fewer than 100 Boko Haram militants have been killed by Cameroonian soldiers during an operation in the Nigerian border. The troops, who were aided by a regional anti-Boko Haram, equally succeeded in...

Business executives are the most corrupt group in Africa after police officers, a new survey indicates. This is the first time its annual survey ranked businessmen as highly corrupt, Transparency International said. Abuses of power increase poverty and deprive people of...

A British man accused of plotting terror attacks on the Kenyan coast has been jailed for nine years in Mombasa. Jermaine Grant, from London, was jailed for nine charges related to trying to illegally obtain Kenyan citizenship. He faces separate charges...

Sekouba Konate, a former Guinean president and serving African Union general, has pleaded guilty to smuggling money into the US. The 51-year-old tried to sneak in more than $64,000 (£42,400) after arriving on a flight from Ethiopia in 2013. The US...

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday that the continuing expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation to the east would lead to retaliatory measures from Russia. The NATO military alliance on Wednesday invited Montenegro to join its ranks. Peskov added...

An Egyptian court ordered a second retrial on Wednesday in a long-running graft case against Ahmed Nazif, prime minister under ousted president Hosni Mubarak, judicial sources said. A court sentenced Nazif to five years in jail for graft in July...

Hundreds of schools in northeast Nigeria have reopened for the first time in a year and a half, though many teachers and pupils are reluctant to return because of persistent violence in the region, the United Nations said on...