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A scandal over leaked data has hit Zimbabwe’s election after the ruling party sent personalized, unsolicited campaign messages to potential voters’ mobile phones. The opposition says thousands of supporters reported receiving the messages. “ZANU-PF has been caught with its hands in the cookie jar. There is no...

Algeria’s education minister says the Algerian government is taking the “extreme measure” of temporarily suspending the entire country’s internet connection during national high school exams to stop cheating and the leaking of answers. Nouria Benghabrit told Algerian national radio Tuesday that the internet,...

A South African judge on Tuesday considered the idea of showing some mercy when he sentences a 23-year-old man convicted of the ax murders of his parents and brother to life imprisonment. Judge Siraj Desai said he was searching for some “human factor” that diminishes, to some degree, the gruesome nature of the...

Madagascar’s prime minister has resigned as part of a court-ordered effort to overcome a political crisis in a country struggling with instability and poverty. The resignation Monday of Prime Minister Olivier Mahafaly Solonandrasana opens the way for the appointment of a candidate deemed acceptable to opposition...

Every school day, Abdirizack Hussein Bashir rises at dawn for an eight-kilometer (five-mile) trek through a dangerous forest where he sometimes faces harassment by Kenyan army patrols hunting down extremists. Now the 12-year-old’s dream to become a doctor is threatened. Attacks by the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab...

Sierra Leone’s Supreme Court on Monday approved the election commission’s request to delay Tuesday’s runoff presidential vote until the weekend after the lifting of an interim injunction that had stalled preparations. The commission applied for more time once the West African nation’s high court vacated the...

Nigeria’s president on Friday welcomed more than 100 schoolgirls who were released by Boko Haram Wednesday after being kidnapped last month. The girls, wearing hijabs, were served a meal and posed for a photograph with President Muhammadu Buhari, who promised his government would beef up security around vulnerable...

Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir met his Egyptian counterpart in Cairo on Monday, as the two countries look to repair ties that were recently frayed over an upstream Nile dam being built by Ethiopia. At a joint press conference, al-Bashir and Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi vowed to cooperate in managing...

South Sudan has suspended a United Nations radio station for allegedly refusing to comply with the country’s media laws, although the station has not yet been taken off the air. On Friday, the Media Authority, an independent body charged with regulating journalistic practices in the country, said it was shutting...