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Nigeria’s ambassador to Washington has blasted the United States for refusing to sell his country ...

South African police have launched an investigation into corruption allegations linked to President Jacob Zuma’s $24m state-funded upgrade of his house,...

US President Barack Obama will hold a press conference on Wednesday, one day after his Democratic party was dealt a...

Republicans seem set to make significant gains in US mid-term elections with several early results predicted by television stations going...

Burkina Faso’s President Blaise Compaore was toppled on Thursday as the army took power after protesters set parliament ...

Sweden has officially recognised the state of Palestine, the Swedish foreign minister said, less than a month after Stockholm announced...

President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday said he received with sadness, news of the passing away of President Michael Sata of...

South African prosecutors say they are going to appeal against the conviction and sentence given to athlete Oscar Pistorius for...

The number of cases in the Ebola outbreak has exceeded 10,000, with 4,922 deaths, the World Health Organization says in...

Two nurses infected with Ebola while caring for a dying patient in Dallas have been declared free of the virus....

Millions of doses of experimental Ebola vaccines will be produced by the end of 2015, the World Health Organization has...

The Canadian capital, Ottawa, was thrown into turmoil on Wednesday when a gunman shot dead a soldier guarding the national...

Pope Francis has suffered a setback as proposals for wider acceptance of gay people failed to win a two-thirds majority...

An Irish priest who sued his ex-lover in a dispute over the home they once lived in together is entitled...