No court conviction just a legislative debate and a deputy minister in Liberia was sentenced to two-days in jail for rude behaviour.
Deputy Information Minister...
The mortal remains of the late United Nations (UN) Secretary-General will be laid to rest today at the Military Cemetery in Accra.
The three-day state...
Tanzania's President John Magufuli has urged couples to keep reproducing, saying only "lazy people" opted for birth control, the local Citizen news site has...
Pastor Chris Oyakhilome of Christ Embassy has been accused by a member of his own church of staging miracle-healing sessions.
According to a report from...
A report into the levels of physical inactivity across the globe has found that Uganda is the world’s most active nation.
The study, published in the...
A Nigerian couple has been arrested in the US after their 15-year-old son reportedly died during a 40-day religious fast.
Kehinde Omosebi, 49, and Titilayo...
Kweku Adoboli, a former trader convicted of fraud in 2012, is facing deportation to Ghana, after being detained by police in Scotland.
He served four...
Three people have been killed in South Africa during violence on Wednesday targeting foreign-owned businesses in Soweto, police say.
Protests broke out after shopkeepers were...
Germany has handed back the human remains of indigenous people killed during a genocide in colonial Namibia more than 100 years ago.
A Namibian government...
Kenya’s Deputy Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu has been arrested at her offices in the Supreme Court in the capital, Nairobi over alleged corruption.
She has...
The Edo state police (Nigeria) command have apprehended a 23-year-old mother of two, Miracle Johnson, for selling her six-weeks-old baby and using proceeds from...
Namibia’s President Hage Geingob on Sunday urged citizens to participate in land expropriation talks, as he seeks to ease political and ethnic tensions over...
Emmerson Mnangagwa has taken the oath as Zimbabwe's president, after winning last month's bitterly contested election that marked the country's first vote since Robert Mugabe was...
Zimbabwe’s constitutional court confirmed President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s disputed July 30 election victory on Friday, dismissing an opposition challenge that had held up his inauguration.
In a...
An Accra High Criminal Court has convicted a Zambian businesswoman Matildah Nkole Kangombe for trafficking precursor chemical in her luggage at the Kotoka International...
A public inquiry in South Africa has started investigating alleged corruption by ex-President Jacob Zuma.
The inquiry is looking into "state capture", where the wealthy...
The flagship 3.5-billion-dollar Kilamba New City project, by China’s CITIC Construction, has converted a backward rural area into a modern satellite town in the Angolan capital...
Live lavishly, go out extravagantly.
For many of the rich and powerful, funerals are becoming the final opportunity to flaunt immense wealth, competing with weddings...
A young man has been charged in court after allegedly refusing to pay a prostitute after engaging in three hot rounds of intercourse.
The 28-year-old...
Ugandan police have arrested one Harriet Nassali, a housewife, for allegedly beheading her husband, Siraje Kavuma, and digging a grave in their matrimonial bedroom...
A senior press secretary to Ugandan president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni said on Monday evening that the president’s car came under attack by opposition supporters...
A 17-year-old girl, Ramatu Tafida, has cut off the manhood of her fiance, Mr Abdullahi Sabo, in Babura Local Government Area of Jigawa state.
The Nigeria...
The heads of the public land agency and the state railways ministry in Kenya have been arrested on corruption charges over land allocation, Reuters reported...
