Africa

The Kenyan maker of a film about a lesbian romance has gone to court to challenge the constitutionality of its banning in her home...

The mortal remains of the late United Nations (UN) Secretary-General will be laid to rest today at the Military Cemetery in Accra.The three-day state...

Separatists who torched several buses and blocked access to the Northwest region have said it is part of their plan to disrupt the October...

Tanzania's President John Magufuli has urged couples to keep reproducing, saying only "lazy people" opted for birth control, the local Citizen news site has...

A police officer who shot and killed a man in his flat in Texas after apparently thinking she was in her own apartment has...

Protests broke out at the funeral of a top police officer who was shot and killed in Uganda on Saturday.Afande Muhammad Kirumira, an outspoken...

Pastor Chris Oyakhilome of Christ Embassy has been accused by a member of his own church of staging miracle-healing sessions.According to a report from...

A report into the levels of physical inactivity across the globe has found that Uganda is the world’s most active nation.The study, published in the...

A Nigerian couple has been arrested in the US after their 15-year-old son reportedly died during a 40-day religious fast.Kehinde Omosebi, 49, and Titilayo...

On a bitterly cold night in July 2014, Morris Nkonja grabbed his machete and set out along a muddy path off the main road...

An explosion at a South African munitions depot in Somerset West, near Cape Town, has left at least eight people dead, but authorities are...

Kweku Adoboli, a former trader convicted of fraud in 2012, is facing deportation to Ghana, after being detained by police in Scotland.He served four...

Students at a university in South Africa gave up on writing an exam - and started protesting that it was too difficult, local media...

Three people have been killed in South Africa during violence on Wednesday targeting foreign-owned businesses in Soweto, police say.Protests broke out after shopkeepers were...

Germany has handed back the human remains of indigenous people killed during a genocide in colonial Namibia more than 100 years ago.A Namibian government...

General Overseer of the Omega Fire Ministries, Apostle Johnson Suleiman has hit at Nigerian comedians who love to crack jokes using the name of...

Kenya’s Deputy Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu has been arrested at her offices in the Supreme Court in the capital, Nairobi over alleged corruption.She has...

The Edo state police (Nigeria) command have apprehended a 23-year-old mother of two, Miracle Johnson, for selling her six-weeks-old baby and using proceeds from...

Namibia’s President Hage Geingob on Sunday urged citizens to participate in land expropriation talks, as he seeks to ease political and ethnic tensions over...

Emmerson Mnangagwa has taken the oath as Zimbabwe's president, after winning last month's bitterly contested election that marked the country's first vote since Robert Mugabe was...

Zimbabwe’s constitutional court confirmed President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s disputed July 30 election victory on Friday, dismissing an opposition challenge that had held up his inauguration.In a...

Six pupils (one male and five females) who are alleged to be witches and wizard, have revealed how they were initiated into witchcraft.The oldest...

Spanish police have said more than 100 African migrants managed to force their way into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from Morocco when they...

An Accra High Criminal Court has convicted a Zambian businesswoman Matildah Nkole Kangombe for trafficking precursor chemical in her luggage at the Kotoka International...

US First Lady Melania Trump will travel to Africa later this year, although it is not clear where or when she plans on visiting...

A public inquiry in South Africa has started investigating alleged corruption by ex-President Jacob Zuma.The inquiry is looking into "state capture", where the wealthy...

The flagship 3.5-billion-dollar Kilamba New City project, by China’s CITIC Construction, has converted a backward rural area into a modern satellite town in the Angolan capital...

Live lavishly, go out extravagantly.For many of the rich and powerful, funerals are becoming the final opportunity to flaunt immense wealth, competing with weddings...

Five months ago Jessica Osita had never used a computer, sent an email or even browsed the internet, yet she is part of a...

Over 20 people including primary school children and a female hospital employee perished on Wednesday when a boat carrying more than 40 people sank...

A young man has been charged in court after allegedly refusing to pay a prostitute after engaging in three hot rounds of intercourse.The 28-year-old...

A Zimbabwean man who reportedly sneaked into his sick wife’s hospital ward to make love to her is currently in trouble.The man, a prominent...

Ugandan police have arrested one Harriet Nassali, a housewife, for allegedly beheading her husband, Siraje Kavuma, and digging a grave in their matrimonial bedroom...

A senior press secretary to Ugandan president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni said on Monday evening that the president’s car came under attack by opposition supporters...

A detachment of Nigerian troops fired into the air on Sunday - at an airport in the north-eastern city of Maiduguri - to protest...

The eastern part of Burkina Faso was on Saturday again attacked by a jihadist.Five gendarmes and one civilian were killed in a mine explosion...

A woman, from Benue state in Nigeria, continually slept with her son from her first marriage in order to have children with her second...

A 17-year-old girl, Ramatu Tafida, has cut off the manhood of her fiance, Mr Abdullahi Sabo, in Babura Local Government Area of Jigawa state.The Nigeria...

The heads of the public land agency and the state railways ministry in Kenya have been arrested on corruption charges over land allocation, Reuters reported...

Zimbabwe's main opposition leader, Nelson Chamisa, has filed a legal challenge against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's recent election victory.Mr Chamisa says he has evidence to...