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Jacinda Ardern has announced she will quit as New Zealand prime minister ahead of this year's election, saying she no...

The Gambia’s Vice-President Badara Alieu Joof has died in India, President Adama Barrow has announced. The vice-president died after a...

The BBC is seeking a rising star of African journalism for the BBC News Komla Dumor Award, now in its...

Italy's most-wanted mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro has been arrested in Sicily after 30 years on the run.

A Roman Catholic priest has been killed by armed gunmen at his parish in northern Nigeria, who then burned his...

Brazil's Supreme Court has agreed to include right-wing former president Jair Bolsonaro in its investigation into the storming of government...

Kenyan LGBT activist Edwin Chiloba was smothered to death, a pathologist has said, giving the latest details of a murder...

Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec) has warned that the general elections could be cancelled if nothing is done to...

Prince Harry has said claims he boasted in his new book about killing 25 Taliban fighters while on duty in...

Tens of thousands of people in Brazil have held pro-democracy rallies, in an angry response to the storming of Congress...