Senator George Weah has taken the lead in the early election results announced by Liberia’s electoral commission on Thursday evening.
The National Elections Commission Chairman...
Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga pulls out of 26 October election re-run, seeking "credible election."
Mr Odinga said his withdrawal would give the electoral commission...
Liberians are going to the polls to choose a successor to Africa's first elected female president and Nobel Peace laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
Ex-football star...
Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini has said that the banning of corporal punishment in school has led to an increase in indiscipline in learning institutions, the...
Zimbabwe police have arrested a journalist at a privately-owned daily over a story claiming that President Robert Mugabe's wife, Grace had donated second-hand underwear...
Nigeria's police chief Ibrahim Idris has ordered the immediate removal of all police roadblocks across the country.
Many Nigerians will welcome the news because these...
An Ado-Ekiti Magistrate’s Court has remanded a 55-year-old man, Bashiru Adeyanju, in prison custody for raping his 17-year-old daughter (names withheld).
Adeyanju, a resident of...
The floor of Uganda’s parliament witnessed chaotic scenes on Tuesday as legislators debated a motion around presidential age limits.
A leading media outlet, NTV Uganda described the...
Kenyan MP Paul Ongili, better known as Babu Owino, has been charged with insulting President Uhuru Kenyatta, the Daily Nation newspaper is reporting.
Mr Ongili...
Uganda’s State Minister of Health for General Duties disguised herself as a patient and caught two medical workers demanding a bribe for free government...
Thousands of people have fled Ethiopia's Somali region following deadly clashes in recent days between ethnic Somalis and Oromos.
The BBC's Kalkidan Yibeltal looks at...
A 37-year-old HIV positive man from Uganda was arrested for allegedly defiling his 11-year-old twin daughter.
Salongo Christopher Kityo, a fisherman operating at Gerenge landing...
A young Nigerian girl has been arrested by the police for allegedly possessing human heads.
The suspect, Chidinma Ihuoma from Mbirichi, Igbo state was apprehended...
Opposition MPs in Kenya have boycotted the opening of the new parliament to protest against President Uhuru Kenyatta's decision to address it after a...
Togolese president, Faure Gnassingbe, has requested the cancellation of an Israeli-Africa summit scheduled for next month in the West African country, the Associated Press...
Kenyatta threatens to remove Odinga if opposition wins re-run
Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has said that if his rival, Raila Odinga, is elected president in...
No fewer than 45,000 Zulu maidens participated in the Annual Reed Dance, known as Umkhosi Womhlanga in Zulu Kingdom, South Africa, after going through...
