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A member of the losing political party has filed a legal challenge to Sierra Leone’s presidential election, claiming irregularities and asking for a fresh vote. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden’s petition asks the Supreme Court to nullify the results of the election in which Julius Maada...

  Kim Kardashian‘s Tuesday morning looks a lot better than ours! The Keeping Up With the Kardashians star just went on a bikini pic posting spree sharing not one, not two, but three sizzling snapshots of herself rocking different barely-there swimsuits. The mother of...

Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir ordered the immediate release of all political prisoners on Tuesday as part of national dialogue efforts, the state news agency said. The report carried by SUNA did not say how many individuals would be released, but said the move came in the...

Legal experts say Olympian Oscar Pistorius has finally run out of options to appeal his 13-year prison sentence for the murder of Reeva Steenkamp. South Africa’s highest court dismissed Pistorius’ request to review the sentence on Monday, bringing a close to a five-year legal...

The Nigerian president’s spokesman says President Muhammadu Buhari has declared his intention to seek re-election in February, 2019. Presidential spokesman Garba Shehu said in a statement Monday that Buhari made the declaration at a closed-door meeting of the National Executive...

A Catholic leader in Congo says gunmen have killed a parish priest after a Mass in Congo’s eastern region. The Rev. Emmanuel Kapitula in Kitchanga said armed men entered a room in Masisi where the priest, Etienne Nsengiunva, was eating with others on Sunday and shot him dead....

South African geneticist Vinet Coetzee held up a malaria-diagnosing scanner that she said can be developed for use in Africa’s rural areas without the need for blood samples or lab tests. “This can be rapid, affordable and non-invasive,” she said. “It can reduce health inequality...

Former South African president Jacob Zuma sat in the dock of a packed courtroom on Friday to face corruption charges and emerged defiant, telling supporters that the case against him was politically motivated. Zuma, 75, appeared relaxed during the brief hearing at which his case...

Laughter has replaced fear in Zimbabwe as the dramatic events leading to the resignation of former leader Robert Mugabe are already playing out on stage. Crowds last week packed a theater in the capital, Harare, as Mugabe and his wife were openly mocked. Gazing out on the crowd...

Sierra Leone’s election commission declared main opposition candidate Julius Maada Bio as the West African nation’s new president Wednesday, giving the opposition party its first presidency in 10 years. Chief Justice Abdulai Charm swore in the new leader along with Vice President...