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France arrested a Chadian rebel leader along with two other people for alleged crimes against humanity, the Paris prosecutor’s office said . General Mahamat Nouri,...

A local leader of Islamic State's branch in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula was killed, the group and a security source said. The group identified...

A Ugandan court sentenced a Muslim group leader and three associates to life in prison after their conviction on terrorism charges related...

A former Somali insurgent leader, Mukhtar Robow Abu Mansur, defected to the government, a military official said, severing ties with Islamist group...

Police arrested a Zambian opposition leader and said he would be charged with defaming President Edgar Lungu, an offence that carries a...

A court in Niger handed an opposition leader a three-month suspended sentence for agitating for the overthrow of government, a move his...

A prominent Egyptian opposition leader was detained for "offending public decency" amid what rights lawyers say is a wave of arrests of...

A Niger opposition leader will go on trial next week on charges of incitement to violence and sedition, his lawyer said, in...

An al Shabaab chief, Moalim Osman Abdi Badil, and three fighters were killed in fighting in Lower Shabelle region, Somalia's information minister...

The United States imposed financial sanctions against two militia leaders accused of collaborating on violence intended to destabilise the Central African Republic...

Zambian opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema was detained and questioned by police for committing treason, his lawyer said. Hichilema, an economist and wealthy businessman...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday found Congolese former militia leader Germain Katanga liable for $1 million in damages to his...

Police in Democratic Republic of Congo said they arrested the leader of a separatist Christian cult in Kinshasa following a two-week standoff...

An Ethiopian opposition leader from a region hit by anti-government protests last year pleaded not guilty in court, after prosecutors brought charges...

The African Union is due to choose a new leader on Monday in a vote likely to expose differences over the International...

Police in Uganda re-arrested a traditional leader facing treason and other charges hours after he was granted bail by a court, a...

The military chief of the former Congolese M23 rebel group is in Uganda's capital Kampala and his fighters in the western part...

A Tuareg militant leader in the volatile north Malian city of Kidal was killed on Saturday when his car exploded barely 300...

The head of one of Burundi's opposition parties has been released, days after he was arrested for what police said was collaborating...

Some years ago the SANDF touted itself as "Defence in a Democracy". This has been superseded by "The Pride of the Nation". That...

South Sudan's main opposition leader called for the dominant ruling party to pare down the country's "huge" government and said it had...

Some Iranians think so after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei suggested scrapping a directly elected presidency, which critics say would weaken Iran's...