A Congolese military court has sentenced a high-ranking policeman to death for his role in the 2010 murder of human rights activist Floribert Chebeya,...
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has directed that any cabinet ministers seeking to run in next year's elections should resign before May 16, the minister...
The Executive Director of the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO), COP Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah, has been elected as an Executive Member of...
Former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has rejected a presidential nomination form, saying it was bought without his consent.
The form was for the ruling All...
A man decided to console his grieving girlfriend during her father’s funeral by asking for her hand in marriage.
In the video circulating on TikTok,...
Liberia’s president has sacked the head of the country’s only international airport after dark runways, caused by power failures, had forced numerous incoming flights...
The world's only nonuplets, nine babies born at the same time, have celebrated their first birthday.
26-year-old Halima Cissé, from Mali gave birth to five...
The Young Democrat Union of Africa (YDUA) has presented to President Nana Akufo-Addo the ‘Africa Peace Award’.
The award is for contributions to the...
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa had to leave a May Day rally after workers stormed the stage where he was speaking.
Chanting “Cyril must go,”...
Fire is reported to have gutted the church of the late influential Nigerian preacher, TB Joshua in Lagos, Nigeria.
According to reports, the fire destroyed...
Queen Elizabeth has eulogised Kenya's former President Mwai Kibaki as a "great statesman" who had "a lifelong record of service to the Kenyan people".
Mr...
The funeral service of former Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki, who died last Thursday aged 90, is under way in the capital, Nairobi.
Global dignitaries including...
The organiser of Miss Rwanda beauty pageant has been arrested on allegations of sexually abusing contestants, the authorities have said.
The arrest of Dieudonné...
The Nigerian authorities say they have arrested a suspected drug trafficker, described as a billionaire drug baron, while on board a plane at Lagos'...
A London-based Nigerian Kunle Adeyanju, who commenced a cross-country charity ride from London to Lagos on a motorbike, has arrived in Africa.
Adeyanju, who began...
Six people were killed on Friday by a blast at a seaside restaurant in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, an ambulance service official told Reuters.
"So far...
President Akufo-Addo has expressed his deepest condolence to the people of Kenya over the death of former President Mwai Kibaki.
Taking to Twitter on April...
Authorities in Russia have arrested a 21-year-old Zambian student for twerking at a World War Two memorial.
Tionge Ziba reportedly did the erotic dance in...
Over 100 Nigerians have been killed in an explosion that occurred at an illegal bunkering site on April 23, 2022.
The Saturday night explosion occurred...
Ivory Coast’s navy has seized a record amount of cocaine plastic-wrapped in small bundles bearing the tattered logos of French fashion house Louis Vuitton...
