Africa

Anti-gay outcry has forced Ghana’s first LGBT+ community centre to temporarily close to protect its staff and visitors three weeks after it opened, its...

Ugandans in the age bracket of 0 to 17 years will not get the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine jabs due to limited data on their...

With over 200 million population according to the United Nations (UN) population index, Nigeria is faced with numerous challenges among which is the stability...

Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation, and Reparations Commission (TRRC) will hold hearings at its current session, which began on February 22, 2021, on the 2005 massacre...

Police have arrested two witchdoctors in Mitooma district, Uganda for allegedly raping a female student of Kampala International University and stealing Shs2.9 million from...

Three students were injured in Cameroon’s South-West region after a stampede broke out following a rumoured Covid-19 vaccination campaign, The Guardian Post newspaper has...

A special plane carrying a consignment of Ebola vaccine landed in Guinea on Monday night.A dust storm in the Sahara forced the aircraft off...

The Ugandan opposition leader, Bobi Wine, says he is withdrawing his court case challenging the results of last month’s presidential election.Bobi Wine, whose real...

Standing at the porch of his house in Ghana, as a young boy, Ashitey Trebi-Ollennu was fascinated by the planes that flew in and...

Seven people were killed when a Nigerian military plane crashed on approach to Abuja airport on Sunday, a spokesman for Nigeria’s Air Force said. ”All seven...

A man, who caught his girlfriend having lunch with another man, confronted her and humiliated her by collecting the wig and footwear he bought...

Swaziland's King Mswati III said he had recovered from COVID-19 after Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen sent antiviral medication to help him.The small southern African...

Europe and the United States should, without delay, send enough COVID-19 vaccine doses to Africa to inoculate the continent’s healthcare workers or risk losing...

Africa has surpassed 100,000 confirmed deaths from COVID-19 as the continent praised for its early response to the pandemic now struggles with a dangerous...

Six “ring leaders” of a “Ghana-based criminal enterprise” have been arrested in the United States (US) over $50m laundering charge, investigators have said.“The scams...

Former Hearts of Oak coach, Kosta Papic, has been appointed as the Technical Manager of Black Leopards FC of South Africa.The coach, who resigned...

A Senior High School student was caught in her school with a local gun she allegedly planned to use in shooting one of her...

The General Overseer of Omega Fire Ministries International in Nigeria, Apostle Johnson Suleman, says he bought his third jet during the raging COVID-19 pandemic...

He’s been called the 'Jackie Robinson of car design.' McKinley Thompson, Ford’s first African-American designer, was hired by the automobile manufacturing company at a...

A Kenyan woman, who married a disabled Australian man, has told the BBC how people called her a gold digger after photos of their...

Popular Nollywood actress, Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde has taken to her social media pages to announce that she has trademarked her first name, Omotola.Sharing a...

The land title of Uganda's Kyambogo University has mysteriously disappeared from the registry of Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA), putting more than 407 acres...

A social media user has recounted how a sister of hers was gifted a wrapped cutlass at her wedding over the weekend.As confused...

A lady, who caused a stir on Sunday, February 14, after her boyfriend proposed to her in Benin City in Nigeria has broken her silence.According...

President Nana Akufo-Addo, on Monday, 15th February 2021, left Ghana to attend the 7th Session of the Ordinary Summit of the Heads of State of G5...

Zimbabwe has received its first 200,000 doses of the Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine, donated by China.The consignment arrived on Monday morning in a Air Zimbabwe...

Fifty-one billion and zero - the two numbers Bill Gates says you need to know about climate.Solving climate change would be "the most amazing...

Commotion marred a wedding procession after the bride-to-be found out about his soon to be husband’s sexual affair with her chief bridesmaid.According to reports,...

There was a scare on Thursday when a Kenyan Member of Parliament (MP) said colleagues were unsafe during proceedings because one member was armed.The...

A popular Cameroonian cross dresser known as Shakiro and two homosexuals have been sentenced to prison. According to Cameroon News Agency,  the court of first...

A mystery illness that causes people to vomit blood has killed 15 people and hospitalised more than 50 others in Tanzania.The illness detected in...

A 16-year-old Kenyan stowaway was found alive after he reportedly hid in the landing gear of an airplane that flew from the East African...

A church usher took to Twitter to share a photo showing what a member put in the offering envelope.Rather than put money or a cheque...

n Sierra Leone, sex workers are often seen as immoral outcasts to be shunned and avoided, even though their profession is legal.  BBC Africa Eve...

Nigeria expected to receive not fewer than 100,000 doses of Pfizer’s vaccines by the end of January or at the beginning of February but...

A new case of the Ebola virus has been detected in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the country's health ministry says.A...

Church members and wedding guests in a church in Port Harcourt engaged in a verbal fight when the pastor refused to wed a couple...

Popularly known as a collector of one of the most expensive cars, Rolls Royce, Dr Bolu Akin-Olugbade, has been laid to rest.The wealthy businessman...

An unidentified woman's attempt to cheat airport checkpoint with her hard drugs was shut down when officials nabbed her.A video, which has since gone...

A young barber from Benue State, identified as Elijah Ode, has reportedly been arrested in Kano for blasphemy. According to a Benue activist, Smith Akoko, the young...