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At least eight people have been killed in a gun attack on a church in southern Nigeria, police say. Up to 18 other worshippers were wounded in the early morning incident at the church in Ozubulu near the city of Onitsha.

A section of Kenyan youth have urged voters to look beyond their tribes and vote for a leader who can develop the country and provide the needed jobs for the teeming unemployed youth. They say blindly voting along tribal lines would not deliver the infrastructure

President Paul Kagame of Rwanda has won a third term in office with a landslide, the country’s electoral commission has announced. Partial results of Friday’s election gave him 98% of the votes, it said. Mr Kagame’s supporters, who say that he

The Supreme Court of Saudi Arabia has upheld the death sentences of 14 men who were found guilty of various charges in proceedings which “brazenly flouted international fair trial standards,” Amnesty International has said. The 14 individuals were convicted of a

South East Asian ride-hailing firm Grab has raised $2.5bn (£1.9bn) in fresh funds, in what it says is the region’s biggest ever round of investment. Didi Chuxing, which effectively ended Uber’s ambitions in China, is one of the key backers. Along with

Three Kenyan men – who stripped, robbed and attacked a woman in a bus, in an incident that was recorded and widely shared on social media three years ago – have been sentenced to death by a magistrate in the capital,

Two more Republican senators have said they oppose their party’s replacement for President Obama’s health system, making it impossible for the bill to pass in its current form. Mike Lee and Jerry Moran say the new legislation does not go far

Al-Aqsa Mosque officials have rejected new security measures put in place by Israel as it reopened the holy site following a deadly gun battle that prompted a two-day closure. Muslim religious authorities, who administer the compound, are refusing to pray there