Nepal’s election commission says a four-year-old party led by an ex-rapper has swept the first election since a youth-led revolt.

An official says at least 50 people have died and 125 others are missing after landslides hit three districts in southern Ethiopia following a week of heavy rains.

Senegal’s parliament has approved a law that toughens punishment for homosexuality in the largely conservative West African nation.

North Korea has shown leader Kim Jong Un and his teenage daughter firing pistols at a munitions factory as he pushes to modernize the country’s conventional forces.

An explosive-laden drone blamed on Sudanese paramilitaries has struck a secondary school and a health care center in southern Sudan, killing at least 17 people, mostly schoolgirls, a hospital official and a medical group said.

Voters will be heading to the polls to vote for a president in the Republic of Congo on Sunday but the outcome seems to be a foregone conclusion as the country’s longtime leader Dennis Sassou N’Guesso faces little opposition in the political arena.

Troops have been deployed on the streets of South Africa’s biggest city after the president announced plans last month to use the army to help police fight gang violence and illegal mining.

A series of explosions attributed to drones has killed at least one person as the attack rocked downtown Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo.

The American Dara Academy in Senegal is at the center of abuse allegations after students describe harsh punishments in a room they call the “magic room.”.

Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon are driving thousands of families to flee again, and some longtime Hezbollah supporters are now openly blaming the group.