A Tanzanian government employee has been sacked for opposing the introduction of charges for mobile money transfers on social media.
Jonas Afumwisye, a regional manager...
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...
A nine-year-old girl has been shot dead in her own home by an unknown gunman who remains on the loose.
Merseyside Police officers descended on Kotty Ash, Liverpool,...
The Ghana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) has temporarily banned Delta Air Lines' plane with registration N195DN, from flying to Ghana.
This comes on the...
Former US President Donald Trump has asked a judge to freeze the justice department's investigation of files seized from his Mar-a-Lago home.
In a lawsuit,...
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...
Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed astonishing new pictures of Jupiter.
The images show our near neighbourhood in precise detail, and scientists help that it...
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...
Singapore will repeal a law that bans gay sex, effectively making it legal to be homosexual in the city-state.
The decision, announced by Prime Minister...
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...
A two-year-old bit a snake to death in Turkey last week after she was struck first.Â
Newsweek reports the toddler was in her backyard on August 10 when neighbours heard...
Ethiopian Airlines Group has suspended a plane crew pending an investigation after they lost communication with air-traffic control in Addis Ababa before later landing safely.
Flight...
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...
A man who horrifically murdered his new bride just hours after they tied the knot has been handed a life sentence.
Dawn Walker’s body was found stuffed into a...
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,...
A Chinese-Canadian billionaire has been sentenced to 13 years in prison in China and his company fined more than $8bn (£6.7bn).
Xiao Jianhua and his...
