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By Emmanuel Nduka Madagascar will begin on Monday for 21 people accused of planning a coup d’etat, including two French men and their wives. Paul Rafanoharana, Philippe Francois and their wives were arrested on July 20,...

By Emmanuel Nduka 18 choir members have died while travelling in a 52-seater school bus to a wedding of an elderly couple in Kenya. In the accident which occurred in River Enziu in Kitui on Saturday,...

By Chioma Iruke The United Nation camp in the northern Mali city of Gao was on Sunday hit by two bomb explosions which caused damage but had no casualties. The blasts which occurred at 0545 GMT...

By Emmanuel Nduka Economist and Nobel Memorial Prize laureate, Roger Myerson, has urged African leaders to decentralise power and make resources available to local councils in order to fast-track development across the continent. Myerson gave this...

By Ebi Kesiena Senegalese transport unions ended a strike on Saturday that had paralysed capital Dakar and other regions over police harassment and illicit competition. According to Gora Khouma of the CUSTRS union, although there remained...

By Ebi Kesiena School bullies could be jailed for up to three years in France after its MPs voted to make bullying a criminal offence. The proposed legislation will make school bullying a specific criminal offence,...