Africa

Getting sleep on a plane is not automatic for everyone. But for some passengers on a South Airways (SAA) flight headed to Hong Kong...

A group of South African virgins have explained that they are not in a hurry to have sex despite being pressured to do so.The...

Authorities in Guinea Bissau have confirmed to the BBC that about sixty people are missing after a boat they were travelling on sunk.The incident...

A 30-year-old father who has been arrested for sleeping with his daughters has claimed that he only wanted to teach them a lesson.According to...

Police in Zambia arrested two Chinese nationals over the weekend over allegations that they were giving illegal military training to members of a local...

A prescription went entirely wrong for a heartbroken wife who had wanted to get her husband back.READ: Audio: Man beats wife to pulp for...

A police officer and five others were killed at a beer parlour around Okpoga area of Benue state at about 9 pm yesterday September...

A photo of a yet to be identified 25-years-old lady is currently making rounds on the internet over an exceptional and rare move as...

A variety of “festering” causes and effects surround crises around the world, Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, said on Tuesday, speaking on the first day...

Kenyan law professor and former director of the anti-corruption commission, PLO Lumumba was on Saturday refused entry to Zambia due to "security considerations", authorities...

Police in the Netherlands have arrested seven men over an alleged plot to carry out what they describe as a major terrorist attack involving...

Separatists in Cameroon’s restive English speaking regions staged a prison break leading to the escape of about 70 prisoners, the BBC reported on Wednesday.The...

In a bid to boost tourism, South Africa is finalising a number of visa waiver agreements with other countries, allowing travellers to enter the...

Pirates have kidnapped 12 crew members from a Swiss cargo vessel in Nigerian waters.Massoel Shipping said its vessel, MV Glarus, was carrying wheat from...

 READ: Bagre Dam: Gov’t to construct storm drains in parts of Northern regionA South African church witnessed a fight between two women after the...

Wife of Reggae Icon Ras Kimono, Efe Okedi is dead. Efe reportedly passed on on Sunday 23rd from an undisclosed ailment.According to Leadership Newspaper,...

Girls as young as five are being sold to settle their parents' debt as part of a tradition known as 'money marriages'.Becheve, Nigeria: In...

Nigerian musician, Davido has been spotted in a political campaign costume amidst the several Osun state rallies he is currently featuring in.The attire which...

Pro-marijuana activists cheered in the public gallery and chanted “Weed are free now” when the Constitutional Court gave its landmark ruling.In a unanimous ruling,...

A demonstration by elite sniffer dogs in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, on Monday went awry when the animals failed to detect illicit goods.Kenya Revenue Authority's...

Two Bombardier Dash 8 Q300 aircraft formerly used by Topbrass Aviation Services Limited, a local operator, have been allegedly stolen in Lagos.The airplanes (registration...

Kweku Adoboli, the former UBS trader convicted of fraud, has been given a temporary reprieve from deportation to Ghana, where he was born.Adoboli was...

Tanzanian lawmakers will no longer be able to come and go as they please and dressed as they want in carries out their duties...

https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/1041019824430825473READ: I have a very high libido now – Joyce Dzidzor MensahAhead of the Nigerian elections next year, a politician has been caught naked...

Rwanda has decided to immediately free Victoire Ingabire, an opposition leader jailed for 15 years, after President Paul Kagame exercised his power to grant...

The Rwandan cabinet has approved a presidential pardon of over 2,000 convicts in a move that will benefit two prominent persons currently serving jail...

No court conviction just a legislative debate and a deputy minister in Liberia was sentenced to two-days in jail for rude behaviour.Deputy Information Minister...

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...