Former head of Rwanda's presidential guard Tom Byabagamba, 59, who once served as President Paul Kagame's personal bodyguard, has died in jail.
He was arrested...
The head of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) John Ratcliffe has met Russia's intelligence services during his visit to Moscow, the Kremlin has...
Dolly Parton died with a net worth of over $450 million, according to estimates.
The Queen of Country’s death at the age of 80 was announced Tuesday by...
Tanzania's Vice-President Emmanuel Nchimbi has announced he is resigning weeks after it was reported that he had fallen out with President Samia Suluhu Hassan.
The...
Veteran Nollywood actor Taiwo Hassan, popularly known as Ogogo, has died.
The actor’s daughter, Kira Taiwo, announced his death on Sunday evening during a live...
President Donald Trump's administration on Monday released a proposed regulation to codify an unprecedented fee of more than $100,000 on new H-1B visas for highly...
President Donald Trump's administration said on Monday it planned to revoke the non-immigrant visas of foreigners who have applied for or are currently seeking asylum status...
Vice President Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang will represent President John Dramani Mahama at the inaugural Africa Mindset Reset Forum, scheduled for August 25 and...
Economist and Board Chairman of MTN Ghana, Dr Ishmael Yamson, has admitted that the company was late in publicly condemning xenophobic attacks against Ghanaians...
Eleven bodies have been recovered by Tunisia's coastguard after a boat carrying Tunisian migrants sank at the weekend en route to Italy, with three others still...
Armed men abducted several worshippers from a mosque in Nigeria's north-central Niger State during Friday prayers, police said on Saturday, in the latest mass...
More than 100 people have been abducted in attacks on several villages in Nigeria's central Niger State, police and residents have told the BBC.
The...
A United States judge has struck down a policy introduced by the administration of President Donald Trump suspending the issuance of immigrant visas to applicants from...
The Ebola virus continues spreading “exponentially” in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the United Nations has warned.
Sounding the alarm that the outbreak...
President John Dramani Mahama has dismissed suggestions that a prosperous and economically independent Africa could threaten other parts of the world, arguing that the...
An academic who accused the late Cambridge professor Jason Arday of plagiarism has been suspended from his post at a Belgian university.
Nathan Cofnas, a...
At least 50 people, mostly children, died after an overloaded boat capsized on Thursday in Nigeria's northwest Sokoto state, witnesses said.
The accident took place...
Cameroon's President Paul Biya returned home on Thursday after his longest recorded stay abroad since taking power more than four decades ago, ending months...
Two French journalists and their Togolese collaborator have been detained in Togo since July 27, 2026, prompting Reporters Without Borders (RSF) to call for their immediate...
The United States has lifted security restrictions imposed on vessels arriving from Nigeria after more than a decade, the Marine and Blue Economy Minister...
Chinese authorities have arrested a local government official and a businessman suspected of sexually assaulting a woman at a business gathering, in a case...
A federal judge allowed U.S. President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday to end legal protections granted to over 5,000 Ethiopians that have allowed them to live...
A 26-year-old Ghanaian man living in Oklahoma City in the United States has been arrested repeatedly since 2022, with his latest detention coming after...
