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...
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has said his country is willing to unconditionally resume grain exports to Africa and other parts of the world...
Internet access has been cut in Sudan ahead of nationwide protests on Thursday to press for civilian rule.
Internet monitoring organisation Netblocks reports that internet...
The authorities in Chad have said more than $20m (£16m) was allegedly embezzled from a state-owned hydrocarbons company.
Information Minister Abderaman Koulamallah made the accusation...
A Kenyan woman, who is reportedly an aspiring politician, has been arrested after allegedly pretending to be policewoman while appearing as a panellist on...
An 87-year-old man from Busia, Kenya has bought a new coffin for his "future" burial ceremony.
The man, identified as Aloise Otieng' Ng'ombe, is said...
A three-member delegation from LONANI Loterie Nationale du Niger, led by their Director Générale, Monsieur Abdel Kamel Angoh, has paid a full day working visit...
Nigeria’s highest-ranking judicial officer Justice Tanko Muhammad has resigned from his position.
Multiple local reports say Mr Muhammad, Nigeria’s Chief Justice, resigned on the grounds...
President Nana Akufo-Addo has announced Ghana has set up a consortium for Covid-19 vaccines to be produced by German manufacturing giant, BioNTech.
This, he said...
Twenty-nine wedding guests abducted nearly two weeks ago in the north-western Nigerian state of Zamfara have been freed.
They were kidnapped by gunmen who ambushed...
The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), which controls the northern Tigray region, has denied claims by the Ethiopian government that it was preventing aircraft...
Nigerian police have rescued a 16-year-old boy whose eyes were gouged out in the northern state of Bauchi.
In a statement, a police spokesperson, Ahmed...
A court in the Democratic Republic of Congo has acquitted President Félix Tshisekedi's former chief of staff of charges of corruption, according to his...
Malawi’s Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has arrested former police chief George Kainja two days after he was sacked
He has been charged in connection with a...
A Nigerian lawyer caused a stir at the Supreme Court today June 23, when he attended proceedings in the court in his traditional worshipper’s regalia.
According to...
