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(Orlando, FL) – Today, Val Demings announced her candidacy for Florida’s 10th Congressional district.  As Orlando’s former Chief of Police and long-time community leader,...

For the first time since the Ebola outbreak was declared in Sierra Leone, the country has recorded zero new infections.

Prosecutors in South Africa file papers calling for Oscar Pistorius to be convicted of murder, days before he is due to be released on probation.

Uganda journalist Nancy Kacungira speaks about becoming the first winner of the BBC World News Komla Dumor award.

The two sides from the conflict in South Sudan are meeting in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, on the day a deadline expires for them to sign a peace deal, or face sanctions.

Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi approves stringent new counter-terrorism laws to fight the country's growing Islamist insurgency.

The two sides in the South Sudan conflict face a final day of peace negotiations before international sanctions are due to be imposed.

Nancy Kacungira, a television anchor for Kenya's KTN TV channel, wins the first BBC World News Komla Dumor Award.

Tests in South Africa and Ghana show a so-called "drinkable book" can kill bacteria in drinking water, thanks to metal nanoparticles embedded in its pages.

An audio emerges purportedly of Abubakar Shekau in which he denies being replaced as leader of Nigerian-based Islamist militant group Boko Haram.