Struggle stalwart Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has passed away.
The apartheid icon has been ill for a number of years and was most recently admitted to Milpark...
Illegal workers have invaded the farm of former Zimbabwean first lady Grace Mugabe to mine for gold.
Reporters from the Zimbabwean newspaper Newsday found them...
The Uganda Communications Commission has suspended 23 radio stations for advertising and promoting witchcraft, news site the East African reports
Describing the stations as lacking "minimum...
Eight leading columnists of Kenya’s largest media group, NMG, have resigned over loss in editorial independence
Kenya’s government are reportedly cracking down on the media...
Gold castings of the hands of South Africa’s first black President Nelson Mandela have been sold for $10m (£7m) in bitcoin.
Canadian crypto-currency exchange firm...
There are over 80,000 ghost police officers in Nigeria, data from the office of the Accountant-General of the Federation has revealed.
According to local media...
Ivory Coast’s ruling coalition secured an overwhelming victory on Saturday in the country’s first senatorial elections, which were boycotted by the opposition who have...
Members of Zambia’s main opposition party have submitted a motion in parliament for the impeachment of President Edgar Lungu.
The motion, which was submitted to...
More than 100 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram were in Nigeria’s capital on Thursday, a day after their surprise release that fuelled rumours about...
Zambia’s parliament suspended a cabinet minister on Tuesday from its proceedings for one month for slapping a fellow lawmaker within parliament grounds.
Verbal abuse is...
Former South African president Jacob Zuma may challenge a prosecutor’s decision to reinstate corruption charges over a $2.5 billion arms deal, news broadcaster eNCA...
Popular Uyo-based cleric and radio preacher, Rev. Fr. Patrick Henry Edet, tied the knot with his fiancee, Inyene Akpan in Akwa Ibom on Saturday.
T​he...
South Africa's former President, Jacob Zuma, is to face prosecution for 16 charges of corruption, Chief Prosecutor Shaun Abrahams has confirmed.
Mr Abrahams said he...
Former Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe gives his first TV interview since he was ousted from power in November, claiming he was removed through military...
Portions of two video recordings showing alleged kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike alias Evans, confessing to committing crimes of kidnapping and armed robbery within and...
Lawmakers in Kenya have asked police to rein in increasing incidents of cyberbullying.
In a discussion in parliament on Tuesday, they said that social media...
Omamen Iyawe, the wife of Pastor Idahosa Iyawe, Assistant Pastor of The StandPoint Church, Abuja, is dead.
According to reports, Mars Iyawe died on the...
Zambian immigration authorities on Saturday deported South African entertainer Rebeca Libram, popularly known as Zodwa Wabantu, local media reported.
Wabantu, who was due to appear...
A Ugandan MP has been told to apologise to victims of domestic violence after saying men should "beat" their wives.
Onesimus Twinamasiko said on Ugandan...
The judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC), sitting in a plenary session have elected Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji of Nigeria as President of the...
Kenya's president and opposition leader have promised to begin a process of reconciliation following last year's bitterly contested election.
Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga spoke...
Voting is under way in Sierra Leone, where more than three million people are eligible to choose a new president, parliament and local councillors.
In...
Police in Rwanda have arrested six pastors they accuse of being the "masterminds" behind a plot to defy a government order closing churches.
The suspects...
President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buahri, has lauded efforts by Ghana in mediating the political crisis in Togo where opposition groups are calling for incumbent...
Before independence
In the murky game of politics, Kenyans’ indifference and mistrust as a country begun to play out way back even before Independence. Kadu,...
