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An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 passenger jet has crashed on a flight from Addis Ababa to Nairobi. The flight is believed to…

Venezuela’s second-most powerful man has sent his children to China amid the possibility President Nicolás Maduro’s government will crumble.  Diosdado Cabello, leader…

Nigeria’s vice-president has said he is “safe and sound” after surviving a helicopter crash as he was on his way to an…

Opposition candidate Felix Tshisekedi has won the Democratic Republic of Congo’s tightly contested presidential vote, the electoral commission says. Provisional results put…

Chinese President Xi Jinping has officially opened the world’s longest sea crossing bridge, nine years after construction first began. Including its access…

Rwandan activist Diane Rwigara and her mother have been released on bail by a court in the capital, Kigali. Ms Rwigara is…

Liberia’s lower house of parliament, the House of Representatives, has used its powers to send a government minister to jail for two…

President Omar al Bashir dissolved the Sudanese government on Sunday, a move aimed at fixing a crisis-hit economy battered in recent months…

Nineteen people were killed when a small passenger plane crashed into a lake as it tried to land in thick fog in…