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Kenya’s Court of Appeal on Thursday overturned a High Court decision that stopped the printing of ballots by a Dubai-based company for next month’s presidential election. The High Court earlier this month stopped the printing by Al Ghurair Printing and Publishing...

A Kenyan court on Wednesday sentenced three men to death for stripping naked and abusing a woman during a wave of attacks by mobs claiming that women were inappropriately dressed. The three men were found guilty of robbery with violence, which carries a death sentence....

Nobel Peace laureate Malala Yousafzai was greeted with cheers Tuesday by dozens of young women in northeastern Nigeria, where she spoke out for the many girls abducted under Boko Haram’s deadly insurgency. The 20-year-old Pakistani activist told The Associated Press she was...

At least eight people were killed Monday when a female suicide bomber detonated at a mosque in northeastern Nigeria. A spokesman for a civilian self-defense force in Maiduguri city said the bomber was being chased by local security workers and ran into the middle of worshippers...

A government official says a prominent Rwandan academic has been sentenced to life in jail after being convicted of genocide. Rwandan Prosecutor General John Bosco Mutangana said Saturday that Leopold Munyakazi was convicted Friday by a court in the south of the East African...

Congo police say a group of assailants carrying guns and machetes staged an attack in the capital’s main market, killing at least two people and seriously wounding six police officers. Police spokesman Col. Pierrot Mwanamputu said Friday the administrator of the market and...

The United Nations on Thursday said it is considering putting a peacekeeping base in South Sudan’s troubled Yei region, which has “gone through a nightmare” in recent months. It would be the first such expansion since civil war began in 2013. “I can see...

Police in Zimbabwe have fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse dozens of opposition supporters protesting what they say are plans to rig next year’s presidential election. The main opposition MDC-T party, which organized the protest in the capital of Harare on...

The United States said Tuesday it is ready to impose sanctions on anyone in Congo who stands in the way of presidential elections to be held by the end of the year, which would lead to the country’s first democratic transition of power. Congo law bars President Joseph...

A Burundi official says eight people have been killed in a grenade attack on a bar in the country’s rural northern area. Devote Ndayizeye, the administrator of Gatara commune in the province of Kayanza where the attack took place Sunday night, said two of the victims died...