Africa

It's a cloudy Sunday morning in Kenya's Kwale county and Sande Ramadan just woke up to get ready for another weekend of work.Wearing a...

• A Malawian man has revealed to his family that DNA results have confirmed four of his six children are not his • The man...

Struggle stalwart Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has passed away. The apartheid icon has been ill for a number of years and was most recently admitted to Milpark...

Illegal workers have invaded the farm of former Zimbabwean first lady Grace Mugabe to mine for gold. Reporters from the Zimbabwean newspaper Newsday found them...

The Uganda Communications Commission has suspended 23 radio stations for advertising and promoting witchcraft, news site the East African reports Describing the stations as lacking "minimum...

Eight leading columnists of Kenya’s largest media group, NMG, have resigned over loss in editorial independence Kenya’s government are reportedly cracking down on the media...

Gold castings of the hands of South Africa’s first black President Nelson Mandela have been sold for $10m (£7m) in bitcoin. Canadian crypto-currency exchange firm...

A video surfacing on Social media shows some Nigerians rushing to a dump pit to dig out buried chickens allegedly declared contaminated by Nigerian...

There are over 80,000 ghost police officers in Nigeria, data from the office of the Accountant-General of the Federation has revealed. According to local media...

The son of Angola's ex-President José Eduardo dos Santos has been formally accused of fraud over the alleged illegal transfer of $500m (£350m) from...

Ivory Coast’s ruling coalition secured an overwhelming victory on Saturday in the country’s first senatorial elections, which were boycotted by the opposition who have...

Former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe says South Africa should have sent troops instead of a team of negotiators to prevent his ouster by the...

Members of Zambia’s main opposition party have submitted a motion in parliament for the impeachment of President Edgar Lungu. The motion, which was submitted to...

More than 100 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram were in Nigeria’s capital on Thursday, a day after their surprise release that fuelled rumours about...

A Kenyan court has ruled that the forced anal examination of men suspected of being gay is unlawful after rights groups argued the tests...

The world’s last male northern white rhino has died, the Kenyan conservancy taking care of it said, leaving only two females of its subspecies...

Many of the Nigerian school girls kidnapped by militants from the town of Dapchi have returned, according to residents who spoke to the BBC. People...

Zambia’s parliament suspended a cabinet minister on Tuesday from its proceedings for one month for slapping a fellow lawmaker within parliament grounds.Verbal abuse is...

Former South African president Jacob Zuma may challenge a prosecutor’s decision to reinstate corruption charges over a $2.5 billion arms deal, news broadcaster eNCA...

Popular Uyo-based cleric and radio preacher, Rev. Fr. Patrick Henry Edet, tied the knot with his fiancee, Inyene Akpan in Akwa Ibom on Saturday. T​he...

South Africa's former President, Jacob Zuma, is to face prosecution for 16 charges of corruption, Chief Prosecutor Shaun Abrahams has confirmed. Mr Abrahams said he...

A Danish man who was found with women's genitals in his freezer, has been given two life sentences by a South African court for...

A High Court in Mukono, Uganda, has sentenced a 63-year-old Imam with 3 wives to life imprisonment for defiling a two-year-old girl. Musa Mulo, an...

Former Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe gives his first TV interview since he was ousted from power in November, claiming he was removed through military...

A Kenyan nurse has admitted to sending the wrong patient for brain surgery, blaming a heavy workload for the error. Mary Wahome only realised her...

Portions of two video recordings showing alleged kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike alias Evans, confessing to committing crimes of kidnapping and armed robbery within and...

Lawmakers in Kenya have asked police to rein in increasing incidents of cyberbullying. In a discussion in parliament on Tuesday, they said that social media...

A Nigerian man has used a hilariously creative way of capturing his baby's attention while the wife was away. The creative father has shared a...

Omamen Iyawe, the wife of Pastor Idahosa Iyawe, Assistant Pastor of The StandPoint Church, Abuja, is dead. According to reports, Mars Iyawe died on the...

Zambian immigration authorities on Saturday deported South African entertainer Rebeca Libram, popularly known as Zodwa Wabantu, local media reported. Wabantu, who was due to appear...

At least 16 people were killed and dozens more injured after lightning struck a Seventh-Day Adventist church in Rwanda, a local official said on...

A Ugandan MP has been told to apologise to victims of domestic violence after saying men should "beat" their wives. Onesimus Twinamasiko said on Ugandan...

The judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC), sitting in a plenary session have elected Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji of Nigeria as President of the...

Kenya's president and opposition leader have promised to begin a process of reconciliation following last year's bitterly contested election. Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga spoke...

Voting is under way in Sierra Leone, where more than three million people are eligible to choose a new president, parliament and local councillors. In...

Police in Rwanda have arrested six pastors they accuse of being the "masterminds" behind a plot to defy a government order closing churches. The suspects...

Some people & cultures believe in ghosts and reincarnation (the ability of the dead to still live and cohabit among the living) and as...

President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buahri, has lauded efforts by Ghana in mediating the political crisis in Togo where opposition groups are calling for incumbent...

Before independence In the murky game of politics, Kenyans’ indifference and mistrust as a country begun to play out way back even before Independence. Kadu,...

The Nigerian security apparatus is doing all it takes to rescue the over 100 schoolgirls abducted by suspected Boko Haram terrorists in the northeastern...