Liberians are to choose a new president in a run-off vote between Vice-President Joseph Boakai and former international footballer George Weah.
Mr Weah, 51, won...
A prominent Chinese human rights activist, best known by the online alias Super Vulgar Butcher, has been jailed for eight years for subversion.
Wu Gan...
Mauritania's press union has accused the government of deliberately using an ongoing paper shortage to lock out private newspapers and favour only state-run publications,...
US President Donald Trump has praised the UN Security Council for imposing tough new sanctions on North Korea in response to ballistic missile tests.
In...
Israel has expressed regret over Ghana’s vote against America’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as its (Israel) capital.
Ghana was among one of the 128 countries...
Thousands of people have been protesting on the streets across Niger against proposed tax increases.
The 2018 budget introduces housing and inheritance taxes.
Prices of water...
South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC) party has announced that it wants to decriminalise sex work.
The policy was unveiled at a late media...
A UN group has warned Ghana's peace and stability is being undermined by mercenaries and private security groups flooding the country.
One expert said the...
The Vice President also lamented that the private sector in the country does not respect the national minimum wage.
He spoke on Monday in Abuja during an...
A Kenyan court has awarded a schoolgirl four million Kenyan shillings ($40,000; £30,000) after she was strip-searched by police looking for drugs in 2015.
Half-naked...
President Donald Trump on Monday framed his foreign policy as an extension of his populist economic message, lambasting past presidents and trumpeting his own...
President Buhari clocked 75 yesterday! His vice, Yemi Osinbajo led state governors, APC Chieftains, Businessmen, former first ladies, others to give him a surprise...
An aide to the Akwa Ibom governor has accused Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari of abandoning the people to economic hardship and fuel crisis, while...
Rwanda has banned smoking of water-pipe tobacco, popularly known as shisha, starting Friday.
Rwanda becomes the second country in Africa to ban shisha smoking after...
Ethiopia has released a veteran Somali journalist who was serving a lengthy jail term over anti-terror charges. Mohamed Aweys Mudey had spent three years...
So former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Friday bagged the award of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Christian Theology from the Department of Religious Studies,...
South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC) is preparing to choose a new party leader to succeed President Jacob Zuma.
The main candidates are the...
Zimbabwe’s new President Emmerson Mnangagwa has approved early payment of salaries to government workers, the first time in three years.
Zimbabwe Herald reported today that...
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding will be held on 19 May next year, Kensington Palace has announced.
The couple confirmed their engagement last month...
Deeper Life Christian Church 45,000 seater Headquarters, a project which has gone on for about 15 years has been completed.
The auditorium at Gbagada area of...
Flights at the new Dakar international airport in Senegal have been disrupted by an air traffic controllers' strike, just a week after it opened.
The...
A Zimbabwean court on Wednesday 13 December 2017 set free Newsday journalist Kenneth Nyangani, who was being prosecuted for allegedly writing and publishing an...
A regional commissioner in Tanzania, John Mongella has announced that pregnant teenagers will be arrested and charged to court, The Citizen reports.
Mongella, speaking on...
Restrictions on US broadband providers' ability to prioritise one service's data over another are to be reduced after a vote by a regulator.
The Federal...
Former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has left the country to Singapore. Reports indicate that the 93-year-old is taking his annual holidays.
A section of the...
The release of two musicians who were serving life sentences for the rape of primary school pupils is indicative of the Tanzanian president's "punitive"...
