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Togo opposition leader told a press conference, Saturday night, that police fired into the crowd as they demonstrated against the ruling party. Tikpi Atchadam, President of the Togolese Pan African National Party said, “Police shot and killed seven innocent civilians in Sokode over 300

Nearly half of the 400 people known to have died in a mudslide and flooding on the outskirts of the Sierra Leone capital Freetown have already been buried, health officials say. The government had said mass burials would be postponed until

The European Union’s election observer mission in Kenya is calling on the government to promptly publish all results forms of the disputed August 8 vote. Opposition candidate Raila Odinga has claimed that the election was rigged in favor of President Uhuru

Zimbabwe’s first lady, Grace Mugabe, is to appear in court in South Africa later following reports of an alleged assault, South Africa’s police minister says. South African media said she had handed herself over to police. She is alleged to have

US President Donald Trump has again blamed both sides for the violent unrest in Charlottesville, Virginia, which left one protester dead and others injured. In a statement on Monday, he had condemned white supremacists. But in New York on Tuesday he

China is to stop importing coal, iron, iron ore and seafood from North Korea. The move is an implementation of UN sanctions, which were imposed in response to North Korea’s two missile tests last month. China accounts for more than 90%

More than 300 people have been killed in mudslides and flooding near Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown. A hillside in the Regent area collapsed early on Monday following heavy rains, leaving many houses covered in mud. A BBC reporter at the scene

An MS-13 gang member on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list has been captured in Virginia after a four-year manhunt, authorities announced Saturday. Walter Yovany Gomez, an illegal immigrant from Honduras, was arrested without incident Friday in Woodbridge, 20 miles south