A Malawian court has granted the police a warrant of arrest in respect of the country’s former president, Joyce Banda.
According to a police statement...
The U.S. embassy in Moscow accused Russian authorities on Monday of barring diplomatic staff from a property on the outskirts of Moscow, after having...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced that 755 staff must leave US diplomatic missions, in retaliation for new US sanctions against Moscow.
The decision to...
A picture of the Kyrgyz president's youngest daughter feeding her baby dressed in her underwear has sparked a debate about breastfeeding and sexualisation.
Aliya Shagieva...
A manhunt is underway in Birmingham, England after a 15-year-old girl was raped twice in a single night by different attackers, police say.
The girl...
Zimbabwe’s ruling party is considering calling elections early next year out of concern that President Robert Mugabe’s health is worsening and disputes among his...
At least five members of an oil exploration team kidnapped by suspected Boko Haram militants in northeast Nigeria have been killed, a university spokesman...
Pallbearers are lifting the mood at funerals in Ghana with flamboyant coffin-carrying dances.
Families are increasingly paying for their services to send their loved ones...
Nigeria's upper house of parliament backed a series of constitutional amendments on Wednesday that could weaken the presidency and boost the legislature, the latest...
US President Donald Trump says transgender people cannot serve in "any capacity" in the military.
He tweeted that he had consulted with military experts and...
Charges have been dropped against a 41-year-old Nigerian man who named his dog after President Muhammadu Buhari.
Joachim Iroko, a market trader also known as...
Two Canadian religious leaders have been found guilty of practicing polygamy by the Supreme Court of British Columbia (BC).
The trial heard Winston Blackmore, 61,...
A controversial new book about the last days of former South African President Nelson Mandela has been withdrawn by the publisher.
Mandela's family had complained...
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe, reportedly lavished his sister in-law with R780,000 which is approxiamtly $60,000, as she celebrated her 60th birthday on July 23...
A nine-year-old infected with HIV at birth has spent most of their life without needing any treatment, say doctors in South Africa.
The child, whose...
