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South African President Jacob Zuma's son, Duduzane, will sell his investments in a mining firm owned by friends of his father amid speculation that the wealthy Indian-born family is wielding undue influence on domestic politics. Duduzane's announcement on Friday comes...

BEVERLY HILLS, April 07, (THEWILL) – 72-yr-old Sudanese President, Omar al-Bashir, has promised to step down in 2020 at the expiration of his tenure having won another election in April 2015. Al-Bashir made this known to newsmen on Thursday, adding...

Nigeria plans to split state oil company NNPC into two to help ease a planned stake sale and wants to sell at least 40 percent of a newly created National Petroleum Co (NPC) in coming years, according to a...

Iceland's Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson is to step down after leaked documents from a Panamanian law firm showed his wife owned an offshore company with big claims on collapsed Icelandic banks, his party said. Gunnlaugsson became the first prominent...

Islamist rebels shot down a Syrian warplane and captured its pilot on Tuesday in an area south of Aleppo where insurgents are battling the Syrian army and allied militias, a monitoring group said. Syria's military confirmed that a plane on...

The African National Congress has given President Jacob Zuma the support he needs to survive an impeachment vote called after South Africa's top court ruled he had breached the constitution. Parliament will later on Tuesday debate and vote on a...

At an hour-long meeting in Moscow on March 23, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov irritated his German counterpart by raising the case of a German-Russian girl who said she was raped by migrants in Berlin earlier this year. After the...

About 25 people were killed on Monday across Iraq, most of them in suicide attacks targeting members of Shi'ite militias and military forces, security officials said. Islamic State, which controls territory in northern and western Iraq, claimed several of the...

Survivors of Ebola are holding protests across Sierra Leone over what they believe is a lack of government care. They say some people have died because they have not received proper medical treatment. Some women whose husbands died from Ebola say...

The first boats carrying migrants being deported from Greece have arrived in Turkey as part of an EU plan aimed at easing mass migration to Europe. Most of the 202 people who left Lesbos and Chios, and arrived at Dikili...