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The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says over 743,000 under-18 children have fled their homes to escape violence perpetrated by Boko Haram ...

Myanmar’s navy has intercepted a boat packed with 727 people off the country’s southern coast, about a week after it...

Apparently excited by the emergence of Muhammadu Buhari as Nigeria’s new President, United Kingdom has openly declared its readiness to work...

Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has resigned as Middle East peace envoy. He will quit the unpaid role -...

The death toll in the heatwave sweeping India has passed 1,000, with temperatures nearing 50C (122F) in some areas. Most...

With all the votes now counted, Ireland has become the first nation in the world to legalize same-sex marriages by...

Burundian security forces have fired shots and tear gas at protesters after the president, Pierre Nkurunziza, delayed local and parliamentary...

Former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, yesterday, advised the President-elect, Mu­hammadu Buhari, to take tough and sweeping deci­sions on key...

The main measure of UK inflation turned negative in April for the first time on record, with the rate falling...

President of Burundi Pierre Nkurunziza, on Monday reshuffled his cabinet following a coup attempt, sacking the Minister of Defence who...

  An official on Monday said Burundi’s president has fired his defense minister and two other Cabinet ministers after a...

Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza has said his country faces a specific threat from the Somali Islamist movement al-Shabab. He was...

South Africa has deported more than 400 Mozambicans, weeks after anti-foreigner violence in Durban and Johannesburg left several people dead....

Pope Francis has canonised two 19th Century nuns who lived in Ottoman-ruled Palestine, making them the first Palestinian saints in...