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A court in Burundi has sentenced a head teacher to five years in prison for trying to disguise himself as a student and sit a national exam on another person’s behalf. Benjamin Manirambona was also banned from teaching or holding any

Between 20,000 and 30,000 members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) group, remain in Iraq and Syria despite its defeat and a halt in the flow of foreigners joining its ranks, according to a

It seems Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir has no intention of leaving the presidency in the near future – and his insistence on holding on to power will likely have grave consequences for his country. On August 9, Sudan’s ruling National Congress

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has commissioned the Spring and Bolts Limited, one of the companies under Government’s 1-District-1-Factory initiative. The company, which is engaged in the manufacture of U-bolts, leaf springs, trailer suspension parts, bolts and nuts, can import machinery

Two senior Kenyan government officials have been charged in court with fraud over the building of a $3.2bn (£2.5bn) Chinese-funded railway line. The two are accused of paying more than $2m in compensation to private firms which falsely claimed to own

Ace Ghanaian undercover investigative reporter, Anas Aremeyaw Anas nearly died with his colleagues during his latest undercover piece “Malawi’s Human Harvest”. The investigative story for the BBC sought to unravel the issues surrounding the mysterious deaths of many in Malawi for

A man who stole an empty passenger plane from Seattle airport and then crashed it was an airline worker with full credentials, authorities say. The 29-year-old had worked for Horizon Air for more than three years, towing and tidying aircraft and

Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire have agreed to develop a document that will show the plotted maritime boundary for both countries.The document will be developed at the third meeting of the joint committee on the implementation of the decision of the Special