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Kenya has deregistered 510 non-governmental organisations (NGOs), including 15 accused of links with terrorism, an official has said.

Liberia has begun treating Ebola patients with serum therapy - a treatment made from the blood of recovered survivors.

Abuja, Nigeria - 14 December, 2014: President John Dramani Mahama has closed the one-day Summit of the Economic Community of West African States, (ECOWAS), with expressions of hope for peaceful, transparent and credible elections in five Member States in the coming year.

A Ugandan maid has been sentenced to four years in jail for assaulting a toddler, in a case which sparked national outrage after a video was released.

President John Dramani Mahama has urged African countries to work hard to save themselves from poverty, ignorance and diseases instead of expecting “manna from heaven”. He further asked for unity and cooperation among African countries in order to create the necessary environment for development.

Following the signing into law of the National Health Bill, several groups and individuals have come out to commend President Goodluck Jonathan.

Next year's presidential election in Nigeria will be a repeat of the last vote four years ago, with former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari taking on incumbent Goodluck Jonathan.

Health officials in Sierra Leone have discovered scores of bodies in a remote diamond-mining area, raising fears that the scale of the Ebola outbreak may have been underreported.

The father of a Ugandan toddler tortured by her nanny said Wednesday the family remained “traumatised” by the event, as sentencing was delayed for the maid.

President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has sacked his vice-president, Joice Mujuru, after accusing her of plotting to kill him.

Nigeria's Labour Congress, NLC, has called on the Federal Government to reduce the pump price of petroleum products in line with falling crude prices in the international market as has been done by other importers of refined petroleum products.

A damning programme exposing police death squads in Kenya was aired by an international television network Monday.

ABUJA — An Abuja High Court has restrained former President Olusegun Obasanjo from proceeding with plans to publish or have someone publish on his behalf, a new autobiography entitled ‘My Watch.”

As the relentless violence ascribed to militant Islamist group Boko Haram continues to claim lives and destroy livelihoods, the blame game as to who is responsible for the failure to stop the bloodbath has gone into higher gear.

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has been re-appointed as leader of the ruling party, while his wife, Grace, has been given a top position in the party.

President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto Sunday exuded confidence that the Jubilee coalition will remain united despite the collapse of the Head of State’s case at the International Criminal Court.

Neglecting the health of Africa's soil will lock the continent into a cycle of food insecurity for generations to come, a report has warned.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has given prosecutors a one-week deadline to bring evidence against Kenya's president or to drop charges.