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The ICC case against President Uhuru Kenyatta was on the verge of collapse Wednesday after the judges gave the prosecutor seven days to withdraw it if she does not have the evidence to go to trial.

The State of Jersey, the biggest territory in the Channels Island, is set to return £315 million Abacha loot to Nigeria.

Uhuru Kenyatta, the Kenyan president, has dismissed his interior minister and accepted early retirement for the head of the police, just hours after Somalia's armed group al-Shabab said its fighters had killed at least 36 people at a stone quarry in the northeastern city of Mandera.

Maiduguri—Suspected Boko Haram insurgents, yesterday intensified their terrorist activities, targeting two state capitals in the North-Eastern part of the country with co-ordinated bomb explosions in Maiduguri, Borno State capital and gun attacks in Damaturu, Yobe State capital.

Gunmen have killed some 36 quarry workers near the north Kenyan town of Mandera, police say.

Suspected Boko Haram militants have carried out attacks on the city of Damaturu in north-east Nigeria, residents and security sources say.

The head of the UN Ebola response mission in West Africa has told the BBC there is still a "huge risk" the deadly disease could spread to other parts of the world.

ABUJA — Former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (rtd) and the Primate of All Nigeria, Anglican Communion, the Most Revd Nicholas Okoh, Sunday, called on Nigerians not to lose hope in the ability of the Federal Government to contain the current insurgency in some parts of the country. 

Five doctors are embroiled in a legal tussle with a man who accuses them of wrongly diagnosing him with HIV and giving him anti-retroviral drugs that left him paralysed.

Scores of people have reportedly been killed after suspected Boko Haram fighters, who arrived on motorcycles throwing bombs, raided a town in Nigeria's northeast Borno state.

Many people have been killed in three explosions during yesterday’s prayers at one of the biggest mosques in the Nigerian city of Kano, reports say.

Two Egyptian military officers were killed and three army recruits were injured  yesterday   morning in two separate incidents in Cairo and Qaliubiya, as security forces are anticipating anti-government protests by the Salafi Front,the country’s  state media has reported.

SIXTY-three senators have signed up to the plan to impeach President Goodluck Jonathan in the upper legislative chamber, according to Nigeria’s The PUNCH, newspaper. 

A 14-year-old Nigerian child bride is facing the death penalty for allegedly murdering her 35-year-old husband with rat poison.

President Kenyatta Wednesday told Kenyans to stop blaming his government alone for rising insecurity and play their role in securing the country.

Two female suicide bombers have blown themselves up at a crowded market in northern Nigeria's Maiduguri city, causing many casualties, witnesses say.

Hundreds of non-locals working in Mandera have fled their homes and are camping at the Kenya Defence Forces airstrip demanding to be evacuated.

Police in Uganda have amended the charge sheet of the 22-year-old maid, who was caught on camera brutalising one-and-half-year-old child, from torture to attempted murder.