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Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza may find an election victory he is assured of this month swiftly overshadowed by the emergence of an armed insurgency in a nation at the heart of one of Africa's most combustible regions. After weeks of...

Euro zone leaders made Greece surrender much of its sovereignty to outside supervision on Monday in return for agreeing to talks on an 86 billion euros bailout to keep the near-bankrupt country in the single currency. The terms imposed by...

Powerful typhoon Chan-hom has made landfall along the coast of China's eastern Zhejiang province. Almost one million people have been evacuated from coastal areas in anticipation of a typhoon carrying wind speeds of 173km/h (107mph). Some 100mm of rain has...

Burundi's presidential election has been postponed to July 21 from July 15, a presidential spokesman said on Saturday, after African leaders urged a delay to try to halt worsening violence in a nation that emerged from civil war only...

Liberian health officials confirmed another two Ebola infections on Thursday, bringing to five the total number of new cases since the West African nation was declared free of the virus. Francis Keteh, Deputy Incident Management System Leader, said in Monrovia...

A bomb went off near federal high court in Nigeria's oil hub Port Harcourt in the delta region on Thursday but there were no casualties, Governor Nyesom Wike said. The blast occurred when the court was about to rule on...

Iran and six world powers were close to an historic nuclear agreement on Thursday that could resolve a more than 12-year dispute over Tehran's nuclear ambitions, but they remained deadlocked on the issue of Iranian arms and missile trade. Over...

The South Carolina House approved taking down the Confederate flag from the Capitol grounds, a stunning reversal early Thursday in a state that was the first to leave the Union in 1860 and raised the flag again at its...

The Nigerian woman who travelled to Britain to give birth to quins at the taxpayer’s expense is married to a wealthy businessman. Bimbo Ayelabola, 33, had two boys and three girls in April by caesarean section and remained in hospital...

SAN FRANCISCO, July 08, (THEWILL)  – A 26-year-old woman in Zambia's Luwingu district has given birth to pure hair, according to the Luwingu District Medical Officer, Dr. Ernest Mutale. The Zambia National Information Services (ZANIS) on Wednesday reported the woman...