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Clubs and pubs across Kenya are set to be shut down again under new Covid-19 measures, the BBC has learnt. It comes as East Africa’s largest economy is experiencing a surge of cases and the death toll has surpassed 1,000. It has also…

Nigerian security forces are carrying out extrajudicial killings in Oyigbo, say residents of the town in southern Rivers state. They accuse the army of carrying out revenge killings after authorities said three policemen and six…

Defence lawyers in the trial of Sudan's ousted president Omar al-Bashir over a 1989 coup have continued to accuse the prosecutor general Tagelsir al-Hebr of being ineligible for the case, AFP news agency reports. "The prosecutor general…

Austrian police are searching for at least one suspect after a multiple gun attack in the capital, Vienna, that killed four people. Seventeen other people were wounded - some seriously - after gunmen opened fire at six different…

Ugandan opposition figure Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, has been cleared by the electoral commission to start official campaigns for the presidency. He will face off against nine other contenders including incumbent…

Americans are set to vote in one of the most divisive presidential elections in decades, pitting incumbent Republican Donald Trump against his Democratic challenger Joe Biden. The first polls will open from 05:00 EDT (10:00…

A total of 12 senior high schools have been shortlisted for the next round of the maiden edition of the Inter-School Public Speaking Competition 2020. After scrutinizing a dozen of thoroughly exciting entries received, the panel of…

A powerful earthquake has struck off Turkey's Aegean coast, north of the Greek island of Samos. The tremor of 7.0 magnitude was centred off Turkey's Izmir province, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said, and was felt as far away as…

Ivory Coast's former president Laurent Gbagbo said Saturday's presidential election spells "disaster" for the country and has urged dialogue. It's Gbagbo's first public comments since he was toppled in 2011. "What awaits us is…

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has said the country must do all it can to “avert a second wave of Covid-19”. In a tweet, he said he did not want the number of people contracting the virus in Nigeria to increase again, because the…