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A Rwandan gospel singer has said that he expected a backlash after telling a Christian YouTube channel on Monday that he is gay. Albert...
The speaker of New Zealand's parliament has cradled a lawmaker's baby while he presided over a debate in the House of...
An officer in the UK police force who has been appearing on the Nigerian version of Big Brother despite her bosses refusing her permission...
Top investigative Tanzanian journalist Erick Kabendera has been charged with "economic crimes" a week after his arrest. According to the...
Nine people have been killed and at least 16 injured in a mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, police have confirmed. First reports came in at...
A member of Parliament who sparked a diplomatic row with Tanzania, after making allegedly xenophobic remarks, is now visiting the...
US Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer has called for an investigation into FaceApp, which alters users' photos to make them look older or...
The next album to feature and be produced by Beyonce, the soundtrack to Disney's new version of the Lion King, will be "steeped in the...
A 23-year-old former beauty queen in The Gambia, Toufah Jallow, has said she was raped in 2015 by ex-President Yahya Jammeh when he was in...
Lawmakers in Uganda have passed a bill making it a criminal offence to offer money, food or a donation to a street child. Violators of...
In Tanzania, residents of Mtwara are scrambling to leave their homes as they escape the wrath of Cyclone Kenneth, which is set to make...
At least 13 people have died and many injured after a wall collapsed in South Africa at the start of an Easter service at a Pentecostal...
The president of the Seychelles has gone below the surface of the Indian Ocean to call for better protection for the world's seas. Danny...
A woman in South Africa has been arrested after videos surfaced appearing to show a person hitting children and forcing them to...
A Ugandan man, who was only six years old when his father lost his land in a legal dispute, has finally won it back 23 years later, after...
An Ethiopian Airlines jet that crashed on Sunday morning shortly after take-off from Addis Ababa, killing all on board, the airline...
An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 passenger jet has crashed on a flight from Addis Ababa to Nairobi. The flight had 149 passengers and...
WhatsApp is limiting all its members to forwarding any single message up to five times in an effort to tackle the spread of false...
Authorities in Zambia have ordered a local manufacturer to stop the production and distribution of an energy drink that reportedly caused a...
A rugby player who is homosexual, whose claim for asylum was rejected, fears he will suffer violence if he is forced to return to...
The film reveals the origin story of half-human, half-Atlantean ...
Following the conclusion of Split, Glass finds David Dunn ...