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...
Tanzania's President Samia Hassan has ordered fresh training for pot-bellied immigration officers to make them more agile.
She made the remarks in Swahili on Monday,...
Eyinatayo Iluyomade, a 19-year-old Lagos-based comedian, has been arrested and charged to court for saying an expensive joke.
The skit maker was alleged to have...
An Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ibadan on Monday remanded a 20-year-old man, Musa Salimon, at the Agodi Correctional facility for allegedly raping his friend’s...
At least 50 people have died and "many" displaced after recent torrential rains caused flooding in northern Nigeria, Sani Yusuf, executive secretary of the...
Deputy President, William Ruto has won Kenya's presidential election, the electoral commission chairman has said, amid dramatic scenes.
He narrowly beat his rival, Raila Odinga,...
There's growing anticipation that the much-awaited results of last week's Kenya presidential election will be known shortly.
Desks being used for the result verification process...
President Muhammadu Buhari has met families of passengers kidnapped during a train attack in late March in northern Nigeria.
It was the first time such...
Zimbabwe's central bank is to introduce lower denominations of gold coins to allow ordinary people to purchase them, according to the state-owned newspaper The...
Sierra Leonean President Julius Maada Bio has described anti-government protests in the country as acts of terrorism instigated by agitators living abroad.
About 130 people...
Kenya’s newly re-elected lawmaker, Didmas Barasa, has surrendered to police after being on the run for three days over the shooting and killing of...
Anti-government protesters are clashing with police in Sierra Leone's opposition areas.
It has been reported that a number of officers and protesters have died.
Many Sierra...
Mali's interim President Col Assimi Goïta said he held a telephone conversation on Wednesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
In a post on Twitter, Mr Goïta...
Eight police officers were killed during violent anti-government protests in Sierra Leone on Wednesday, the country's youth minister told CNN on Thursday.
The officers, six...
