Pope Francis has allowed priests to bless same-sex couples, a significant advance for LGBT people in the...
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A court in Mauritania has jailed former President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz for five years for corruption....
Switzerland’s government has handed over a prehistoric Libyan marble sculpture believed to be more than 2,000 years...
Authorities in Sierra Leone have arrested a bodyguard of former president Ernest Bai Koroma, over links to...
A Senegalese navy patrol boat has seized nearly 3 tonnes of pure cocaine from a vessel it...
Liberia President George Weah on Friday conceded election defeat to opposition leader Joseph Boakai after a tight...
The World Health Organization has launched an international commission on loneliness, which can be as bad for...
Malawi’s President Lazarus Chakwera has suspended with immediate effect all international travel for himself and his government...
With results in from more than 85% of polling stations in Liberia's run-off election, opposition candidate Joseph...
A Nigerian woman has set the Guinness world record for making the longest hand-made wig. Helen Williams...
