Africa

Mahamat Said Abdel Kani, a former Séléka leader, is facing charges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the crimes he committed in the...

The authorities in Nigeria say 13 policemen were killed in an ambush by suspected armed gangs in the north-western state of Zamfara on Sunday.Seven...

A 31-year-old woman, Ate Joy Veronica, who died four days after her wedding, has been buried in Benue state. Veronica and her husband, Irabor Samuel,...

Mali’s interim President Assimi Goita has been targeted in an attempted stabbing attack after Eid al-Adha prayers at the Grand Mosque in the capital,...

A man, who identified himself as a former pastor of a church in Nigeria, has claimed he and other pastors were sacked by the church for...

When Tunisian tennis star Ons Jabeur hit global headlines for becoming the first North African woman to reach the Wimbledon quarter-finals, another Tunisian woman...

The Nigerian Airforce (NAF) on Monday confirmed the crash of an Alpha Jet aircraft in Zamfara.The aircraft was returning from air interdiction between the...

At least 13 people were killed when a petrol tanker overturned and caught fire in western Kenya over the weekend.The truck collided with another...

South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma has appeared on a video link from prison to attend a corruption trial.Mr Zuma faces charges of fraud...

Mary Daniel, the sachet water hawker who went viral because she's an amputee, has acquired a 17.5 million Naira apartment in Lagos.The 27-year-old Kogi indigene...

There was chaos at a wedding ceremony after unknown men stormed a wedding venue and kidnapped the groom.The incident reportedly occurred inside the New...

Security operatives in Kwara State have rescued a 12-year-old boy suspected to be a kidnapped victim. The boy was rescued by the joint border patrol...

A senior Nigerian army officer has been shot dead by gunmen while travelling from the central city of Lokoja to the capital Abuja.Maj-Gen Hassan...

The backyard of Nigerian entrepreneur, Obi Cubana, has been turned into a cattle ranch ahead of his mother’s burial ceremony.This became so as Cubana...

Shop workers in a South African town hit by ongoing riots foiled looters by pouring cooking oil on the floor outside the entrance to...

Pirates have abducted nine crew members of Ghanaian-registered fishing vessels in separate attacks off the Gulf of Guinea.Five abductees in the first attack have...

The leader of South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province has apologised for punching a looter who was attempting to make off with goods stolen from a...

When Somalia’s former Foreign Affairs Minister, Fawzia Yusuf Haji Adam, announced her candidacy for president in the next elections, the reaction in Mogadishu was...

At the Heavenly Citizen's Church in Lagos, the pastor and congregation have adopted a new tool to help them understand Christian scripture: the first...

A Kenyan man described by authorities as a “bloodthirsty vampire” has confessed to the grisly slayings of 10 children — in some cases, sucking...

Former Namibian football star Marley Ngarizemo has lost 15 relatives including his father, brother, sister-in-law and an aunt since the third wave of Covid...

At least 45 people have now died in the violence that has been engulfing parts of South Africa since the jailing of former President...

Bishop David Oyedepo, the General Overseer of the Living Faith Church, also known as, Winners Chapel, has said he couldn't be friends with every...

Two middle-aged men from Busia County in Western Kenya have mutually agreed to exchange their wives to settle their differences.Josh Odour and Sakis...

Six people have so far been confirmed dead amid #FreeZuma protests in South Africa, where the army has been deployed to quell tension.The protests...

Popular Nigerian Televangelist, Prophet T.B. Joshua, was laid to rest in his church premises on Friday, July 9. Here are photos of his Mausoleum:

Anger has trailed the death of a man who slumped allegedly after reading the result of a DNA test conducted on his son.According to...

The captain of the Super Eagles, Ahmed Musa, got married over the weekend for the third time.According to the Nation, Musa got married in...

Popular Nigerian televangelist TB Joshua has been buried in Lagos after a week of funeral rites.He was buried at the church’s premises after an...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has detected a confirmed case with the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant, also known as lineage B.1.617.2.A statement released...

Over 9,000 people around the world have signed a petition to stop Nigerians from eating dogs. The petition was launched on Change.org by one Natasha Choolun. It...

The global vaccine distribution scheme, COVAX, aims to deliver 520 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to Africa this year, its managing director said, with supplies...

Teenage twin sisters have been allegedly impregnated by a 16-year-old boy at Tole, a town in West African country, Cameroon.According to reports, the 16-year-old...

Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, Founder and President of Christ Embassy church, is set to hold a three-day healing programme ‘Healing Streams With Pastor Chris’ from...

The remains of the Founder of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), Prophet Temitope Balogun Joshua, also known as TB Joshua, has arrived...

Kidnappers who abducted more than 100 students from a boarding school in Nigeria's Kaduna state warned that the children could starve unless parents supply...

South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma has handed himself in to police to begin serving a 15-month jail sentence for contempt of court.He was...

The Lagos state police command has arrested one Bolaniran Orimolade alias Bola Bebo, for intentionally infecting his wife, stepdaughter and twelve other women with Human Immunodeficiency...

An angry mob descended on a man said to be mentally challenged and beat him to pulp for allegedly stabbing a young man in...

South African police plan to arrest former President Jacob Zuma by midnight on Wednesday, in the absence of any further instruction from the Constitutional...