Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu has declared three days of national mourning after a military aircraft crashed in southern Ondo State, killing 32 people.
Authorities say...
Fatima Zahra El Mansouri has been named Morocco’s first female prime minister, after her centrist Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM) won the most seats...
Ethiopia’s federal military has said it is handling rising tensions in the country’s north with restraint, as fears grow that Ethiopia could be heading...
A 23-year-old Congolese cyclist, Miguel Masaisai, has died while undertaking a 17-country cycling journey across Africa to promote peace.
Masaisai, from Goma in the Democratic...
A Nigerian cleric wanted by Cameroonian authorities is reportedly on the run after investigators discovered a mummified body buried beneath a concrete slab at...
One of South Africa's highest-ranking police officers has been charged with sexual offences at a brief appearance at a court north-west of Johannesburg.
The charges...
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has temporarily withdrawn from public engagements after returning from the BRICS summit in India, with his office confirming that...
The Kano State Hisbah Board has arrested a 27-year-old TikTok content creator over videos showing him hugging, carrying, swimming and bathing with women.
The suspect,...
Nigerian skit maker and social commentator Mr Macaroni has opened up about why he became less vocal about government and political issues, revealing that...
The Minister for Works, Housing and Water Resources, Ahmed Ibrahim, has assured investors of Ghana’s readiness to welcome private capital, particularly into the housing...
Ghanaian engineer and former Roads and Highways Minister, Amin Amidu Sulemani, has been appointed Commissioner for Infrastructure, Energy and Digitalisation of the Economic Community...
Minister for Communication, Digital Technology and Innovation, Samuel Nartey George, has called for a distinctly African approach to the development and deployment of Artificial...
Two Nigerians, Bishop Michael Fakunle and James Nwankwo, have been killed in Johannesburg, South Africa.
The duo were reportedly killed in separate incidents, raising concerns...
The husband of Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan died Monday while undergoing treatment in a hospital in Zanzibar, the country’s vice president said.
Hafidh Ameir...
Police in Kasungu have arrested a 41-year-old primary school teacher accused of using false death documents in an attempt to stop salary deductions for...
The Democratic Republic of the Congo faces the fastest-growing Ebola epidemic in recorded history. Official figures released Monday confirm more than 6,000 cases and...
The decision by world-famous Malian musician Salif Keïta to stop touring in South Africa over what he called "xenophobic violence" has been met with...
Former head of Rwanda's presidential guard Tom Byabagamba, 59, who once served as President Paul Kagame's personal bodyguard, has died in jail.
He was arrested...
Vice President Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang will represent President John Dramani Mahama at the inaugural Africa Mindset Reset Forum, scheduled for August 25 and...
Economist and Board Chairman of MTN Ghana, Dr Ishmael Yamson, has admitted that the company was late in publicly condemning xenophobic attacks against Ghanaians...
The Ebola virus continues spreading “exponentially” in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the United Nations has warned.
Sounding the alarm that the outbreak...
President John Dramani Mahama has dismissed suggestions that a prosperous and economically independent Africa could threaten other parts of the world, arguing that the...
At least 50 people, mostly children, died after an overloaded boat capsized on Thursday in Nigeria's northwest Sokoto state, witnesses said.
The accident took place...
Cameroon's President Paul Biya returned home on Thursday after his longest recorded stay abroad since taking power more than four decades ago, ending months...
A man has been arraigned before a Kano Magistrate’s Court for allegedly conspiring with his father’s former wife to kill his father.
The suspect, Nura...
