Several people, most of them commercial motorcycle riders, were killed after a bomb exploded in Nigeria.

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South African Sibusiso Vilane has made history by going where few have gone before.

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Trade unions and workers took to the streets of Cape Town to protest against labour brokering and that e-tolling system...

A woman and her daughter search for firewood in a place that once was once forest and farmland. Liberia's western...

The death of the leader of the breakaway Biafran state in 1967, Dim Odumegwu-Ojukwu, has seen thousands of people paying...

Former Cabinet Minister Njenga Karume has died after a long struggle with cancer. Karume, left and Security minister George Saitoti...

Beth Njambi stands in her maize field in Kakamega, Kenya. She also grows cassava and bananas to provide food for...

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