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Growing attacks by motorbike-riding extremists who flee into the forest have led Burkina Faso’s government to ban the use of motorbikes and bike carts from sunset to sunrise in its troubled east. The West African nation also announced this week it will monitor cars and trucks in the area near the border with...

Call it a struggle for the soul of the ghetto. Uganda’s longtime president this month went on a whirlwind tour of some of the capital’s poorest slums, handing out checks totaling over a quarter-million dollars. The next day, residents turned up in the red colors of the opposition and instead gave thanks to...

At least 44 people are dead after a passenger ferry capsized on Lake Victoria, a Tanzanian official said late Thursday, and the death toll was expected to rise when rescue efforts resume at daybreak. Thirty-seven people were rescued after the ferry sank in the afternoon, Mwanza regional commissioner John Mongella...

Liberia’s government says it is investigating the disappearance of newly printed bills worth about $100 million that were imported into the West African nation. That amount is nearly 5 percent of the country’s GDP. Information Minister Eugene Nagbe tells The Associated Press the money entered the country between...

Zimbabwe’s opposition has walked out of parliament during President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s state of the nation address as politics remain tense after a disputed election. MDC party lawmakers say the president was not legitimately elected on July 30. Tuesday’s speech was Mnangagwa’s first to parliament since the...

Several thousand Ethiopians demonstrated in the streets of the capital on Monday morning to protest ethnic-based attacks in the outskirts of the city in which more than 20 people died over the weekend. Commissioner of the federal police Zeynu Jemal said that five people were killed in the Monday protests and...

A new report says Ethiopia’s air force has killed about 70 al-Shabab extremists in an airstrike in neighboring Somalia. The state-affiliated Fana Broadcasting Corporate says the airstrike was meant to thwart an al-Shabab attack on an Ethiopian contingent of the multinational African Union force. The report sa...

A prominent Rwandan opposition leader walked free on Saturday after the government approved the early release of more than 2,100 prisoners with little explanation. Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza’s release surprised many because it is unusual for longtime President Paul Kagame to pardon potential challengers. She...

Voters in Mauritania are going to the polls for a second round of legislative, municipal and regional elections under tight security as the ruling party seeks to strengthen its majority in Parliament. President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, whose second and final term ends next year, hopes to keep the ruling party in...