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...
A haul of heroin hidden inside packs of baby food has been intercepted at Lagos' main airport, according to police.
Three suspects have been arrested...
The Central African Republic has launched its government-backed cryptocurrency hub called Sango - named after one of the country's official languages.
President Faustin Archange Touadéra...
The message from Nigeria's medical council could not have been more cruel for a student, Moses Damilola Fehintola.
After being trapped by war in Ukraine...
Umaro Sissoco Embalo, Guinea-Bissau President has been unanimously elected Chairman of the Authority of Heads of States and Government of ECOWAS.
He takes over from...
Special Envoy of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to Guinea, Dr Mohamed Ibn Chambas, has communicated his intention to withdraw as...
The General Overseer of Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor E.A Adeboye, has said Christians don’t need guns for self-defence.
On Sunday, Adeboye clarified...
Police in Nigeria have rescued 77 people, including children, from a church where they were confined in the southwestern state of Ondo.
Some of them...
