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Tanzania's opposition leader, Tundu Lissu, has urged the international community to impose sanctions against state officials linked to human rights abuses in last month's disputed general elections. President John Magufuli won a second…

Donald Trump has accepted a formal US transition should begin for President-elect Joe Biden to take office. The president said the federal agency overseeing the handover must "do what needs to be done", even as he vowed to keep…

Nigeria's police has promoted more than 80,000 officers in what it says is an effort to boost their morale after weeks of massive anti-police brutality protests across the country. Some 16 officers who died during the protests have been…

Police in Kenya have arrested at least 1,000 people for flouting Covid-19 containment measures as the country faces surging cases of the virus. Authorities say most of the people detained were found in bars, hours after the night-time…

The election of a new US president gives countries in Africa a chance to press the reset button on economic ties with the United States, according to Stephen Hayes, a former president of the Corporate Council on Africa, a body in Washington…

The UN's refugee agency (UNHCR) says 3,600 people have fled into Liberia from Ivory Coast fearing post-election violence. The UNHCR said numbers had surged following the 31 October presidential poll. Final results issued on Monday gave…

The young Ghanaian men and boys who come to this farm in Osun state, Nigeria, each year to find work mostly say they do it in order to improve their lives once they return home. They have been brought in to the country in groups by a…

An influential former rebel leader has told Ivory Coast’s army to mutiny and back a rival breakaway government in the wake of a contested presidential election that the opposition says was illegal. President Alassane Ouattara won the…

Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has been sworn in for a second term following his victory in last week's disputed election. More than 12 countries have been represented at the ceremony, as well as delegates from the African Union and…

Donald Trump and Joe Biden each claim to be ahead in the US presidential election, even as the final outcome hangs on a razor's edge and both sides gear up for legal action. The Trump campaign is challenging vote counts in the key…