Congolese Mines Minister Louis Watum Kabamba and other members of his delegation survived an accident when the plane they were flying in caught fire...
Gunmen attacked a government girls' boarding school in Nigeria's Kebbi State early on Monday, killing the vice principal and abducting 25 female students, police...
Militants from Islamic State West Africa Province said on Monday they had executed a senior Nigerian army officer captured during a deadly ambush on...
The rate of new international students' enrolment at US universities dropped by 17% this autumn compared to previous years, research released on Monday indicates.
The...
Bangladesh's former prime minister has been sentenced to death for crimes against humanity over her crackdown on student-led protests which led to her ousting.
Sheikh...
A bridge at a copper and cobalt mine in southeastern Congo collapsed due to overcrowding, killing at least 32 people, a regional government official...
US President Donald Trump has called on House Republicans to vote to release the Epstein files, in a reversal from his previous position.
"House Republicans...
The Ghana–Spain Parliamentary Friendship Association has reaffirmed its commitment to advancing bilateral cooperation following a courtesy call on the Spanish Ambassador, H.E. Ángel Lossada,...
Germany's coalition government has agreed on a new military service plan to boost troop numbers following months of wrangling between political forces.
The new military...
There is no genocide in northern Nigeria, the African Union Commission chairperson said on Wednesday, rejecting accusations by U.S. President Donald Trump that "very large numbers"...
The Nigerian government has announced it is cancelling a controversial policy that mandated the use of indigenous languages for teaching in the earliest years...
A young Nigerian soldier has been widely praised on social media after footage of him standing his ground against a powerful government minister went...
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa says "boycott politics doesn't work" as he hit back at US President Donald Trump's decision to skip the G20...
When Oumar Bella Diallo boarded a plane home to the West African nation of Guinea in July, the weary 24-year-old thought his migration ordeal was over.
He...
Hannibal Gaddafi, the youngest son of the deposed Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, has been released by Lebanon after nearly 10 years in detention without...
The Ghana Police Service and the Nigeria Police Force have reaffirmed their commitment to deepening collaboration in the fight against human trafficking and other...
The BBC's Director General Tim Davie and head of news Deborah Turness have resigned after criticism that a Panorama documentary misled viewers by editing...
Government-sponsored PhD candidates from Ghana studying in the United Kingdom say they are on the verge of expulsion and deportation over unpaid tuition fees...
Nobel Prize-winning American scientist James Watson, one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA, has died aged 97.
In one of the greatest breakthroughs...
Dozens of people have been injured in an explosion during Friday prayers at a mosque inside a high school complex in Indonesia's capital, Jakarta.
Fifty-four...
