China has decided to end its decades-long one-child policy, Xinhua news agency reports. All couples will now be allowed to…
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Ivory Coast’s President Alassane Ouattara has won a second five-year term with nearly 84% of the vote, electoral commission officials…
The president of The Gambia says he remains in charge of the West African state after his security forces thwarted…
Militants have stormed a remote village in north-eastern Nigeria, killing at least 33 people and kidnapping at least 100, a…
At least 100 people, 80 of them children, have been killed in a Taliban assault on an army-run school in…
A series of bomb explosions has struck near a market in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, reports say. At…
Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague have said they are withdrawing charges against Kenya’s leader Uhuru…
By Gracious Akujobi Algerian Yacine Brahimi has been voted BBC African Footballer of the year 2014. The 24-year-old midfielder who…
Two female suicide bombers have blown themselves up at a crowded market in northern Nigeria’s Maiduguri city, killing at least…
Nearly five million people living illegally in the US can escape deportation under sweeping changes to the immigration system. “Come…