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The Tamale High Court in the Northern region has convicted two students to death for killing a pastor in a robbery attack 10 months ago. The sentence is expected to suffer increased backlash from international human rights group, Amnesty International. The

More than 1,500 people have died so far in 2018 trying to reach Europe by crossing the Mediterranean, the UN International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has said, adding that this is the fifth consecutive year that the grim benchmark has been

Long queues have formed at polling stations in Zimbabwe in the first since general election since long-serving ruler Robert Mugabe was ousted. Foreign observers have hailed the election as an opportunity for Zimbabwe to break with its repressive past. The presidential

An Egyptian court has sentenced 75 people to death for their role in the violence that erupted after President Mohammed Morsi’s removal in 2013. The group, including leaders of the banned Muslim Brotherhood, are part of a mass trial of more

The homes of about 30,000 people have been demolished in a Kenyan slum to make way for a new $20m (£15m) dual carriage way in the capital Nairobi. The residents, living in part of the city’s largest slum, Kibera, were given

At least 50 people are feared dead in wildfires burning in the Attica region around Athens, in Greece’s worst fire crisis in more than a decade. According to the Red Cross, 26 bodies were found in the yard of a villa

Militant Islamists have stormed a military base in southern Somalia after detonating a suicide car bomb. Al-Shabab says its fighters killed 27 soldiers in the raid, about 50km (31 miles) from the port city of Kismayo. A government spokesman confirmed to

The father of a 10-year-old girl who died after undergoing female genital mutilation (FGM) in Somalia has defended the practice. Dahir Nur’s daughter died of blood loss on 17 July, two days after being taken to a traditional circumciser. But he