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Zimbabwe’s government has sacked more than 10,000 nurses who went on strike on Monday, in an apparently hardline attempt to ...

Lesotho authorities are investigating a security breach after wire-tapping gadgets were discovered in the office of the new prime minister ...

Brazil's Ronaldinho and a host of other former top footballers played an exhibition match in Pakistan on Saturday in a ...

Twenty-six Egyptian soldiers were killed or wounded on Friday in attacks on checkpoints in the Sinai Peninsula where the Islamic ...

Hisham Gaber had been preparing his wedding for months, but started to have second thoughts as inflation in Egypt rocketed ...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ratified a treaty that hands over two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia in a ...

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi extended a state of emergency declared after twin church bombings in April by jihadists, in ...

An Indian national facing execution after being convicted of spying in Pakistan has sought clemency from the country's army chief, ...

Lesotho former prime minister Thomas Thabane, who is fighting to regain power in Saturday's elections, will never forget fleeing his ...

The southern African mountain kingdom of Lesotho holds a snap election on Saturday, with experts predicting another fractious coalition government, ...

Egypt's president has signed into law a contentious new bill to regulate non-governmental organisations, the official gazette said on Monday, ...

Mourners sang, women sobbed and men cried out in anger in a packed Egyptian church at the funeral of some ...

Ramadan is a time for daytime fasting and lavish evening feasts, but Egyptians are scaling back preparations for the Muslim ...

A former Egyptian presidential candidate and rights lawyer who challenged the government for handing over islands to Saudi Arabia was ...

Myanmar's army on Tuesday cleared itself of allegations that troops may have carried out ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims, but ...

Three years after their latest coup, Thailand's arch-royalist military is firmly dug-in. Dissent is banned, a junta-appointed legislature makes the ...

South Sudan's president insisted Friday that the security situation was "normal" and that people had no reason to worry, three ...

Thailand's junta chief has accepted an invitation to visit the White House from President Donald Trump, his spokesman said Monday, ...

Hamas is to unveil a new version of its controversial founding charter which called for the destruction of Israel in ...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's deadly drug war is part of a worrying assault on human rights and democracy across Southeast ...