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Italian authorities have launched an investigation into the cause of death of 26 teenage girls whose bodies were recovered in the Mediterranean Sea on Sunday. The girls, aged 14-18, are believed to have been migrants from Niger and Nigeria who had embarked on the treacherous route to Europe from Libya …

A senior Saudi prince was killed when the helicopter he was travelling in crashed near the border with Yemen, state television reports. Prince Mansour bin Muqrin, the deputy governor of Asir province, was travelling with several officials when the helicopter crashed, Al-Ikhbariya news channel reports. It comes a day after …

Jacob Zuma told South Africa’s parliament on Thursday he had received no payments from private companies or individuals during his time as president, as opposition lawmakers walked out in protest over the cost to the state of his legal fees. Allegations by government and opposition politicians that the wealthy Gupta …

Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni became the first African leader to congratulate Kenya’s president-elect Uhuru Kenyatta on his successful re-election to serve a second and final term. Kenyatta garnered over 98% of votes cast in a poll re-run that saw a low turnout partly due to an opposition boycott and violence …

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe sacked Ray Goba as the country’s top prosecutor on Friday six weeks after appointing him, a government notice said. Mugabe, 93, gave no reason for the decision. Goba was appointed when Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa was in charge of the justice ministry, which oversees the office …

After tyres finish burning, what is left is a matted mesh of singed black wire. In Kenya’s western city of Kisumu, they hug curbs and roundabouts, leaving dark, circular footprints where the road melted underneath. This is the Nyanza heartland of opposition leader Raila Odinga, where demonstrations have erupted since …

escue crews in Somalia are working to find survivors, two days after the worst suicide attack in the country’s history. More than 300 people were killed and hundreds more are injured after a truck bomb ripped through the heart of the capital, Mogadishu. Source: aljazeera.com

Hillary Clinton said in an interview with CNN on Wednesday that she will donate the money Harvey Weinstein contributed to her political campaigns after multiple sexual assault allegations were leveled against the powerful Hollywood mogul. Clinton, in an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria as part of her ongoing book tour, …

The Minority in Parliament has called on government to probe a Libyan report that said about 50 to 100 Ghanaian migrants have featured prominently as members of ISIS in Libya. According to the Minority, they have taken interest in the report because of its ramification to the country’s security and …

At least five people have been killed in southern Malawi after they were accused of behaving like vampires. The UN says it has pulled staff out of two districts as the vampire scare sweeps across the south of the country. According to reports, the victims were killed by vigilante mobs …