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Al-Jazeera journalist, Mahmoud Hussein, has finally regained his freedom after four years in detention in Egypt. The Egyptian government accused him of publishing false news and held him under preventive detention since December 2016. A security...

Ex-Ugandan rebel commander Dominic Ongwen, nicknamed ‘White Ant’ has been convicted of war crimes at the International Criminal Court. Mr. Ongwen, a feared commander of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), is the first member of the...

Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi has pledged to offer amnesty to citizens who joined the Islamist State Group carry out attacks in the gas-rich northern province of Cabo Delgado. President Nyusi promised that there will be no...

Ugandan academic cum political activist, Dr Stella Nyanzi, has fled to Nairobi, Kenya. Dr Nyanzi, a former research fellow at Makerere University ran for Kampala Woman MP seat in last month’s general election. The development was...

The trial of a suspected warlord accused of atrocities during Liberia's civil war has started in Finland. The development comes not long after France and Switzerland putting two other rebel commanders in the dock in December....

The World Bank says it has suspended the disbursement of USD100 million in a programme to fund free schools in the Democratic Republic of Congo over "fraud and corruption" in the country's education sector. Directors at...