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Chad’s main opposition candidate Saleh Kebzabo has announced his exit from the presidential election set for 11 April. The announcement by Mr. Kebzabo follows the killing of at least two people as security forces tried to...

One of Zimbabwe’s vice presidents has resigned following a string of reports in the local media that alleged he had affairs with several women, both married and single. Kembo Mohadi, 71, one of the country’s two...

French ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy has been sentenced to three years in jail, two of them suspended, for corruption and influence peddling. President from 2007 to 2012, he was found guilty of trying to illegally obtain information...

  The President of Zanzibar, Hussein Ali Mwinyi, has appointed Mr. Othman Masoud Othman as the new First Vice President of the semi-autonomous archipelago. Mr. Othman is replacing Maalim Seif Sharrif Hamad, who died on February 17....

  China has enforced new rules governing school disciplinary methods, banning physical punishment and verbal abuse in primary and secondary schools. The outlaw of corporal punishment and verbal abuse came into force on Monday, March 1. Educators are now...

    Following her appointment in February 15, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has resumed official duties as the Director-General of the World Trade Organization, WTO. The former Nigerian Finance Minister who is the first woman and African...