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          Guinea-Bissau’s presidential election will go to a second round between the main party’s candidate and the army-backed hopeful, the election commission said Wednesday, after no one secured a majority in the crunch poll. Jose Mario Vaz of the African Party for the...

                Algerians have gone to the polls to elect a president, with the elderly and frail incumbent widely expected to win amid uncertainty about how the country’s grave economic problems would be tackled. Abdelaziz Bouteflika, a veteran of the generation that...

            The Nigerian Navy ship, NNS Victory, has arrested the operators of an illegal marine academy on the Calabar water ways. The alleged illegal school, ‘Flight Marine Safety Academy-Nigeria Merchant Navy Institute’, was said to be located at Obubra Local Government Area of...

          Kenya has two weeks to report to the ICC Trial Chamber the steps it has taken in submitting President Kenyatta‘s financial records. Failure to comply would incur the risk of the country being cited for non-cooperation with the ICC. This could, in turn, influence the conditions...

      Restricted competition has helped push up charges, according to research by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI). Money transfer company Western Union said that fees were set according to factors such as local taxes. The company “delivered much-needed services to individuals”,...

            Wife swapping among Namibia’s nomadic tribes has been practised for generations but a legislator’s call to enshrine it in law has stirred debate about women’s rights and tradition in modern society. The practice is more of a gentlemen’s agreement...

            Ferry carrying 459 people, mostly high school students on an overnight trip to a tourist island, sank off South Korea’s southern coast on Wednesday, leaving nearly 300 people missing despite a frantic, hours-long rescue by dozens of ships and helicopters. At least...

            An elite runner failed to catch her flight home after going missing following the London marathon. Police today said they were still searching for an athlete from Sierra Leone who went missing after the London Marathon, despite announcing yesterday that she had been found....

              Many keen observers took special interest in this year’s budget at least for some reasons. First, they believed President Goodluck Jonathan who stated that the budget would usher in substantial growth and job creation. As the President puts it, “We need to grow even...