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Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari. (Photo: AP)World
It's real me: Nigerian President denies claims he died, was replaced...

Buhari had spent 5 months abroad for an undisclosed illness. Many have claimed he was replaced by a Sudanese lookalike...

3 Dec 2018 2:58 PM IST

A government spokesman said it was keeping track of an event but that it could not comment further. (Representational image | AP)World
81 people, mostly children, kidnapped from school in Cameroon:...

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the abduction in the region where separatists are fighting to form a...

5 Nov 2018 6:54 PM IST

A picture shows police and firemen gathering at the site of Mondays suicide attack in the centre of the Tunisian capital Tunis. (Photo: AFP)World
Woman suicide bomber blew herself, wounds 9 in Tunis: Interior...

Ambulances arrived swiftly at the scene, which was cordoned off by security forces.

29 Oct 2018 9:08 PM IST

Gigaba, who was finance minister between March 2017 and February 2018. (Photo: AFP)World
Have been blackmailed over leaked sex video: South African minister

Gigaba said he had decided to make the announcement because he had learned that the video was now circulating in...

29 Oct 2018 3:03 PM IST

One of them died on the spot and two others were declared brought dead when they were taken to hospital. Others are undergoing treatment at KMC hospital. (Representational Image)World
British tourist found dead with missing organs, Egypt authorities deny...

Accusing UK media of publishing 'flawed reports', Egyptian state information service (SIS) said allegations of 'organ...

22 Oct 2018 12:07 PM IST

Some had even remarked that the occurrence of landslides in deep forests during this period indicates that quarrying has nothing to do with the phenomenon. This stupidity was mouthed by quarry owners and repeated their well-wishers in Kerala Assembly. (In pic: A scene of landslide in Idukki)World
Landslide kills at least 31 in eastern Uganda: Govt officials

'The landslide pushed huge boulders into a river which burst its banks and the water swept away the people,' an official...

12 Oct 2018 1:16 PM IST

Police said that kidnappers shot into the air\ before bustling Dewji into their car.World
Africa's youngest billionaire, Mohammed Dewji, kidnapped in Tanzania

Dewji, 40, who heads the MeTL Group, was abducted as he entered the gym of a hotel in the city.

11 Oct 2018 4:29 PM IST

The mother and child, who have not been identified, have fully recovered and are in good health, doctors said.World
HIV-positive mom donates liver to child

World's first such liver transplant took place in SA a year ago.

5 Oct 2018 2:02 AM IST

Nene is a pivotal figure in a probe into the three Indian-born Gupta brothers, who built a business empire during Zumas nine-year tenure only to see it disintegrate as the scandal-plagued leader was forced out by his own party in February. (Photo: AP)World
South Africa's Finance Minister to testify in Gupta brothers probe

The Gupta family and Zuma have denied any wrongdoing and say the allegations are part of an orchestrated witch hunt.

3 Oct 2018 10:07 AM IST

The negative findings for bisexual adults may be linked to their \marginalization\ by heterosexuals and \stigma\ from gays and lesbians, according to the study. (Photo: AP)World
Lesbian 'witches' chained, raped by families in Cameroon

Gay people are often subjected to 'corrective rape' by their families, strangers and vigilantes who treat homosexuality...

2 Oct 2018 2:46 PM IST

Obado was remanded in custody by the High Court judge until his bail hearing on Tuesday. (Photo: Twitter)World
Kenyan governor charged with murder of 26-yr-old pregnant lover

Migori county governor Okoth Obado was arrested after DNA testing confirmed he was the father of seven-month-old foetus...

25 Sept 2018 12:49 PM IST

There were \more than a hundred passengers\ on board the vessel when it sank Thursday afternoon near Ukara Island in the southeast of the vast lake, which also extends into Uganda and Kenya, a local official said. (Photo: AFP)World
Tanzania: Over 100 dead, dozens missing after ferry capsizes in Lake...

Witnesses said the ferry sank when passengers rushed to one side to disembark as it approached the dock.

21 Sept 2018 11:13 AM IST

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