A Moroccan imam who lost a court appeal on Tuesday against deportation from France for hate speech has gone missing.
When police arrived at Hassan Iquioussen’s home...
Kenya’s Supreme Court concluded the presidential petition hearings on Thursday.
Lawyers representing the electoral commission and President-elect William Ruto challenged the petition by presidential candidate...
South Africa's cabinet has approved a new design for coins that will feature inscriptions in all official languages.
The official languages will be rotated annually...
Three health workers in Senegal have been arrested after a pregnant woman and her baby died allegedly because of a botched Caesarean section.
A health...
Uganda has started giving Ebola vaccines to its soldiers who are fighting against rebels in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.
The exercise began last week...
Lawyers of veteran Kenyan politician Raila Odinga, who is challenging the presidential election results, have alleged that there was systematic rigging in favour of...
A middle-aged man has been arrested for killing his friend and burying the body in his house in Lokoja.
According to Nigerian Tribune, the incident happened...
Two students of the Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete, Tobiloba Daniel and his suspected lover, Arewa Abayomi, have been found dead in Daniel’s off-campus...
Nigeria's north-eastern Borno state government has launched an ambitious school enrolment programme for thousands of children displaced by the Boko Haram jihadist insurgency.
The state...
Two former top officials from South Africa’s state-owned ports and freight rail company Transnet have been arrested by elite police unit The Hawks, for...
A 74-year-old man from Kogi State, identified as Mallam Muhammad Awal, has married for the first time.
Awal wedded 45-year-old divorcee, Mallama Rahmat Muhammad,...
The French energy ministry has confirmed reports that talks are under way between gas giant Engie and Algeria's Sonatrach to potentially increase gas imports...
Two Supernumerary Police Officers in Nigeria have been suspended by the Nigeria Police Force for misconduct.
The officers, Obaze Blessing and Obaze Emmanuella Uju, were...
Niger has deployed rainmaking technology aimed at alleviating the effects of drought in the country, weather authorities said Thursday.
The desert country has faced a...
The World Health Organization (WHO) boss, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, has lamented being unable to send money to his "starving" relatives in Ethiopia's war-torn Tigray...
Uganda is set to install 2,000 Wi-Fi hotspots across the country in a new project aimed at improving internet connectivity.
The internet will be used...
Kenya's electoral body has revealed that there was an attempt to attack its personnel who were preparing responses to presidential election petitions.
The Independent Electoral...
Uganda’s police have charged four of its officers who stormed a wedding reception over the weekend and arrested the bride over a theft charge.
The...
Somali Prime Minister Hamsa Abdi Barre has pledged to hold accountable officials who failed to prevent the deadly al-Shabab attack on Hayat Hotel in...
Police in north-western Uganda are investigating the deaths of a dozen people who are suspected to have consumed a locally manufactured gin.
The deaths are...
Kenyan politician Raila Odinga ferried cartons of paperwork in a truck as he files a legal case challenging the results of the presidential election.
A...
Raila Odinga, who came second in Kenya's presidential election, has filed a legal case challenging the result, his lawyers have said.
According to the electoral...
Four Nigerian Catholic nuns have been abducted in Nigeria’s south-eastern state of Imo, the local convent said, on a now notorious highway where a...
