As Nigerians anxiously await the outcome of the tightly contested presidential elections, the head of the ECOWAS Observation Mission says the voting process was marred by irregularities.
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he Nigerian presidential outsider Peter Obi has won the most votes in the key state of Lagos, narrowly beating the ruling party's candidate in his stronghold, according to provisional results released Monday by the Electoral Commission (Inec).
A Dutch technology company has developed a smart camera that is helping wildlife conservationists in Africa tackle widespread poaching.
Each of the three frontrunners in Nigeria's hotly contested presidential election claimed Monday they are on the path to victory as preliminary results trickled in two days after Africa's most populous nation went to the polls.
Despite Kenya being a secular state, the National Assembly Speaker faulted the Judiciary decision arguing that the nation is highly religious and it was up to the Supreme Court to defend the public morals.
A United Nations helicopter came under heavy fire in eastern Congo, bringing the mission to suspend flights in the conflict-riddled region, the organization said Monday.
Ethiopian journalist and activist, Eskinder Nega, has been released after spending two days in prison in Bahir Dar, the capital of the Amhara Region.
Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry express solidarity with the Syrian people during the first such visit to Damascus in more than a decade of war, as a deadly quake sparked rare Arab outreach
Algeria, which shares some 1,400 km of borders with its southern neighbour, took an active part in the peace agreement signed in 2015 with the independence rebellion to end the war in Mali.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shukri will visit Syria and Turkey on Monday, two countries with which Cairo had been on diplomatic ice for a decade before a recent warming, his office said Sunday.
