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...
Controversial man of God, Prophet Jay Israel, has torched a storm on social media after confessing to rituals he performs after bedding women.
The Zimbabwean...
New York City police have released footage of the moment five teenagers fatally beat a yellow cab driver.
The harrowing video shows how father-of-four Kutin Gyimah,...
President Nana Akufo-Addo has congratulated the newly-elected President of Kenya, William Ruto, on his victory in the just ended presidential elections of 9th August...
A huge explosion has ripped through a crowded mosque in the Afghan capital Kabul, killing 21 people, police say.
Another 33 people were injured, Kabul...
Tanzania's state telecommunications firm has installed high-speed internet connectivity on the slopes of Mt Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain, through a national broadband project.
Information Minister...
Liberian President George Weah suspended Nathaniel McGill, the Minister of State for Presidential Affairs, and two other officials after the US Treasury added them...
When a Congo woman, identified as Goreth, decided to share her possessions with her younger sister, she never imagined that would include her future...
Raila Odinga has rejected the results of Kenya's presidential election saying that the figures announced on Monday were "null and void".
According to the official...
