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Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has said the tide has "definitely turned" against militant Islamists as regional forces recapture territory.

The Nigerian army has retaken the north-eastern town of Baga, held by Boko Haram militants since 3 January.

A young girl suicide bomber Sunday blew herself up and five others when the explosive devices strapped to her body detonated in a market in Nigeria’s northesatern city of Potiskum, witnesses said.

President Jacob Zuma's office has dismissed as gossip a Sunday Times report that his wife Nompumelelo Ntuli-Zuma poisoned him.

 President Jacob Zuma's wife Nompumelelo Ntuli-Zuma has reportedly been banned from his Nkandla home following claims of a plot to poison him.

President Goodluck Jonathan said he underestimated Boko Haram Islamists who have overrun swathes of the country’s northeast and defended an election postponement in an interview published Sunday.

Liberia is to reopen its borders following a reduction in the number of Ebola cases being reported in the country.

Armed men have abducted at least 89 boys in South Sudan, the United Nations children's agency has said.

ABUJA — The United States of America has said it would fight side-by-side with Nigeria in the war against the Islamist terrorists, Boko Haram.

ABUJA-Determined to make the federal government comply with court judgment on elections, the All Progressives Congress yesterday wrote a letter to President Goodluck Jonathan and the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega asking him to give heed to the judgment barring the involvement of soldiers in elections.

ABUJA— The Chairman of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega, yesterday, told the Senate that only the service chiefs could guarantee the sanctity of the rescheduled polls in view of the security challenges facing the country.

Kenya has been ranked sixth among top 10 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa with large populations living in extreme poverty.

A 23-year-old Mpumalanga woman who was raped by two men has refused to open a police case because she believes she has infected her attackers with HIV.

An albino toddler missing since Sunday has been found dead in northern Tanzania with all his limbs hacked off.

More than 300 Boko Haram fighters have been killed in military operations in north-east Nigeria, the army says.

ABUJA — Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, General Muhammadu Buhari, has assured that if voted into power next month, his government would run a market based economy.

ABUJA – President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday described former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s attacks on him as the consequence of his failure to surrender his administration to the former leader.

Nigerian troops have repelled a Boko Haram attack on the north-east city of Gombe, officials say.