Africa

16-year-old Emani Kure hacked her 40-year-old father, Kusha Kure, to death at their home because he refused to allow her marry her 24 year...

Thousands of South Africans today are reportedly laying to rest Winnie Mandela, anti-apartheid icon and Nelson Mandela’s former wife, with full state honours at a...

A video trending on the internet at the moment shows Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) General Overseer Pastor E. A. Adeboye addressing the paying of tithe. READ:...

Boko Haram has abducted more than 1,000 children in northeast Nigeria since 2013, the United Nations' children's agency announced Friday. The number of children kidnapped by...

President Muhammadu Buhari who gave the explanation while receiving the Archbishop of Canterbury, His Grace Justin Welby in London said, that majority of Nigerians appreciate...

Sierra Leone’s new president has named a partial cabinet and announced 12th May as the inauguration date for the newly elected government, while the...

A baby has been born in China to a surrogate mother four years after his parents died in a car crash, Chinese media reported. The...

A randy houseboy received far more than he bargained for after he slept with his employer’s wife.ALSO READ: My appointment to Cancer Board not...

Police in Togo have dispersed an opposition protest in the capital Lome. Reports indicate that teargas was fired to disperse protesters in Lome and...

Reports from Tanzania say bloggers and other “online content creators” now have to pay $930 in licence fees per year to be approved by...

Africa is one of the continents of the world with diverse traditions. Earlier today we reported about how some African countries prepare their women...

ALSO READ: Journalist dies after attempting abortion It was excitement laced with wonder when Nigerians spotted a self driving car for the first time on the...

Senteni Masango, the 8th wife of Africa’s last absolute monarch, Swaziland’s King Mswati III, has died after committing suicide. She was found dead in the...

Two Nigerian brides abandoned their respective wedding receptions in order to sit their final exams, a move that delighted their head of department, local...

Police in Kenya are looking into the authenticity of a video purportedly showing a police officer assaulting a man.National Police Service-Kenya✔@NPSOfficial_KEOur attention has been...

ALSO READ: Newmont Ahafo Mine collapses, kills 6 dead and injure others Hollywood Superstar, Brad Pitt has produced a non-fictional documentary exposing what he terms "greed...

The Arewa Pastors Non-denominational Initiative for Peace in Nigeria has vowed to expose the pastors working against President Muhammadu Buhari. The leader of the group,...

Fast-rising Nigerian artiste, Ali Zainab Nielsen aka Alizee, has reportedly been shot dead alongside her 4-year-old daughter, Petra Nielsen. She was allegedly murdered this morning...

Thousands of supporters of former South African president Jacob Zuma are expected to march to the Durban High Court on Friday, where Zuma will...

Election observers in the just-ended Sierra Leonean elections are demanding an apology from the losing party for accusing former President John Mahama of spearheading...

A Nigerian man is currently facing marital crisis over an unused vibrator he had bought for his wife. According to reports, the man identified simply...

Ghana’s High Commissioner to UK and Republic of Ireland, Papa Owusu-Ankomah has underscored the need for deepening the City of London’s relationship with Ghana...

A Kenyan registrar has revealed he has a backlog of more than 80,000 birth certificates - because the official paper is yet to be...

A former military commander and rebel leader who later went to graduate school in the United States and Britain was declared the winner of...

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...