Thirty-one Chinese nationals, held for illegal mining in Zambia, have been deported.
China said Zambia had provided insufficient evidence to justify the arrests.
It said one...
South Africa has fallen into recession for the first time in eight years after economic growth shrank by 0.7% between January and March.
The downturn,...
About thirty Cameroonian soldiers engaged in the fight against insurgent group, Boko Haram, have been arrested and sent to the capital, Yaounde.
The Ministry of...
Togolese President Faure Gnassingbe has been named the new chairperson of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in Liberia’s capital Monrovia.
He takes...
South Africa's ruling party has called for an investigation into emails which appear to show allegedly corrupt links between President Jacob Zuma's family and...
South Africa’s ruling party has called for an investigation into emails which appear to show allegedly corrupt links between President Jacob Zuma’s family and...
The ex-wife of Liberia's former president has been charged with torture, the Metropolitan Police said.
Agnes Reeves Taylor, who was married to Charles Taylor, is...
Ghana's former President John Mahama has called the decision by US President Donald Trump to withdraw from the 2015 Paris agreement on climate change...
Suspected al-Shabab militants killed a teacher and abducted another as they burned down a school late Wednesday in northeastern Kenya.
The Kenyan MP from the...
Kenya has opened a major new railway between the port city of Mombasa and the capital, Nairobi, 18 months early.
President Uhuru Kenyatta said during...
Nigerian police are searching for six children abducted from their school on the outskirts of the main city, Lagos.
The abductors freed four other children...
South Africa's embattled president Jacob Zuma has been planning to set up home in Dubai, according to emails published in the local media.
The reports...
A 14-year-old maid allegedly tried to poison her master because she was rebuked. Mr. Nasiru Akinlosotu, 63, a former medicine store operator escaped death...
South Africa's embattled president Jacob Zuma has been planning to set up home in Dubai, according to emails published in the local media.
The reports suggest deepening...
Nigeria's acting President Yemi Osinbajo has extolled the virtues of hard work, while addressing civil servants.
Mr Osinbajo, who is standing in for President Muhammadu Buhari,...
A team of surgeons from Stellenbosch University (SU) has successfully performed a second penis transplant, making it the first medical centre in the world...
A total of 500 Islamic scholars from 14 districts of the northwestern Nigerian state of Zamfara have prayed for ailing Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari...
The Gambia's former president stole "at least" $50m (£38.4m) from the state before he left the country in January, the justice minister has said.
Yahya...
The Gambia's former president stole "at least" $50m (£38.4m) from the state before he left the country in January, the justice minister has said.
Yahya...
A fourth person has likely died from Ebola in remote northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization said on Sunday, as the...
A cholera outbreak in war-ravaged Yemen has killed 315 people since April 27, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Sunday.
The cholera infection...
Hundreds of protesters, most of them men, have marched in the South African capital, Pretoria, over rising levels of violence against women and children.
One...
Police on Thursday arrested three men shortly after they had attended the burial of the suspected teenage gangster Claire Njoki Kiboi.
Detectives raided the 18-year-old...
Instead, they are thought to have been represented by their families in accordance with the Ghanaian ‘customary law’ on marriage.
Mr Awuku’s father stood in...
