A Nigerian governor has created a new role for his sister - as commissioner for happiness.
Rochas Okorocha unveiled the post during the swearing-in of...
US President Donald Trump will unilaterally recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital, senior administration officials say.
But the officials said Mr Trump would not immediately move...
The Swiss government has announced that it will return $320m (£240m) of the money allegedly stolen by Nigeria's late military ruler Sani Abacha.
The money...
Reports from Yemen say ex-President Ali Abdullah Saleh has been killed in fighting with his former allies.
Media controlled by the rebel Houthi movement quoted...
South Africa's corruption watchdog has found officials misused millions of dollars during Nelson Mandela's funeral four years ago.
According to the report, 300m rand ($22m;...
Husbands who attempt "instant divorce" could be sentenced to three years in prison under draft legislation being considered in India.
The traditional practice involves a...
Zimbabwe’s new President Emmerson Mnangagwa has replaced two ministers, two days after announcing his cabinet.
Critics said the original line-up showed Mr Mnangagwa had no...
Liberia is in the thick of uncertainty after its Supreme Court ruled in November that a presidential run-off vote cannot proceed until a complaint of fraud and irregularities...
An Australian MP has proposed to his partner during a parliamentary debate on legalising same-sex marriage.
Tim Wilson's proposal to Ryan Bolger, who was sitting...
The General Overseer of Omega Fire Ministries (OFM) Worldwide, Apostle Suleman, took to social media to disclose that he just increased his tithe from...
The new slave trade-human trafficking in Libya is being carried out by many nationalities, including Nigerians and Ghanaians, according to a Cameroonian returnee, who...
Fifteen Ghanaian prisoners have been beaten to pulp in a prison in Libya for possessing phones.
The fifteen were identified and subjected to serious beatings...
Donald Trump has told Prime Minister Theresa May to focus on "terrorism" in the UK after she criticised his sharing of far-right videos.
"Don't focus...
Kenya’s main opposition leader, Raila Odinga has promised supporters that he would be sworn-in as president on December 12.
The announcement comes shortly after the...
Australian police have arrested a man they allege was planning to carry out a terror attack during New Year's Eve celebrations in Melbourne.
The 20-year-old...
"The taste of stockfish is life... We can't cook without stockfish."
That's the verdict of women at the bustling Onyingbo market in Nigeria's commercial capital,...
Zimbabwe has officially declared 21 February to be Robert Gabriel Mugabe National Youth Day, thereby making the former president's birthday a public holiday, the Herald...
Libyan authorities have launched a formal investigation into slave auctions in the country following an exclusive CNN report earlier this week, the government said...
US magazine publisher Time Inc. will be bought by rival media company Meredith Corporation for $2.8bn (£2.1bn).
The deal is backed by the billionaire brothers...
As a young priest, the Rev. Fidelis Mukonori collected evidence of atrocities during Zimbabwe's brutal civil war. The reports filtered to Robert Mugabe, then...
A man was reportedly arrested for incest and sexual battery of a victim ages 12-17.
39-year-old Willie Edward Griffin has been in-and-out of jail for...
A South African court has increased Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius’s jail sentence for killing his girlfriend to 13 years and five months.
Prosecutors had argued...
