Rights watchdog Amnesty International has called on Ethiopian authorities to launch an "impartial" investigation into last month's killing of more than 400 members of...
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has given the country’s education and labour ministers two weeks to end the prolonged lecturer’s strike.
The country’s Academic Staff Union...
The World's most fertile woman, Mariam Nabatanzi is craving to welcome more babies after birthing 44 children.
Nicknamed Mother Uganda or Mother Africa, 38-year-old Mariam...
Sudan has reopened a key border crossing with Ethiopia that it closed last month after accusing Ethiopia of executing seven of its soldiers.
A statement...
UN experts have warned that attacks on foreign nationals in South Africa are on the increase and they've called for greater accountability.
They say violence...
Two Catholic priests, Rev. Fr. John Mark Cheitnum and Rev. Fr. Donatus Cleopas have been kidnapped in Lere Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
According...
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara held a rare meeting on Thursday with his predecessors and long-time rivals Laurent Gbagbo and Henri Konan Bédié in...
Nigeria’s Inspector General of Police has banned the use of special number plates that grant holders priority on roads and security privileges.
In a statement,...
A 23-year-old man identified as Mohammed Abubakar, has been sentenced to three months imprisonment by an Ota Magistrates’ Court in Ogun state for biting off...
The UN says 20 people have been killed and dozens more abducted in multiple attacks in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
The dead include children...
South African police have arrested a man after intercepting a minibus taxi carrying 21 sheep suspected to have been stolen.
They said preliminary investigations showed...
South African actress Busisiwe Lurayi, who acted in Netflix's comedy series How To Ruin Christmas, died in her residence on Sunday, according to her...
An African Union vaccine e-passport has been introduced, which is intended to enable easier travel within and outside Africa.
The passport will be in digital...
Congolese M23 rebels say talks between Rwandan President Paul Kagame and his Democratic Republic of Congo counterpart Félix Tshisekedi will not stop the fighting...
Gunmen have attacked a convoy of Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari's team in Katsina, his home state in the north.Two persons sustained injuries in the...
Zimbabwe’s central bank says it will start selling gold coins later this month as a way to protect people against spiralling inflation.
Central Bank Governor...
An Egyptian court has sentenced a researcher to three years in prison in a retrial over charges of “publishing false news”.
Researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy,...
The authorities in Niger state in central Nigeria have ordered the immediate suspension of all mining activities.
It comes days after gunmen launched a devastating...
Heads of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Sunday lifted sanctions on Mali’s military regime.
The West African leaders also accepted a...
Sudan's military leader, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, has said the army will make way for a civilian government.
In a televised speech, he said the...
