Africa

Security forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo have killed at least seven people at a protest calling for President Joseph Kabila to step...

Tens of thousands of people again took to the streets of Lome Saturday to protest against the regime of President Faure Gnassingbe.. Responding to calls...

Yusuf Buhari, son of Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari, has been flown to Germany for medical treatment local media sources are reporting. The presidency on Wednesday...

Indications have emerged that popular Nigerian cleric and televangelist, Pastor TB Joshua had a hand in what seems the sure victory of Liberian presidential...

Former soccer star George Weah has been declared winner of Liberia’s presidential runoff vote held on December 26. According to the National Elections Commission (NEC)...

No-one really enjoys a long airport stopover, but for one Zimbabwean family, Bangkok's main airport has been home for nearly three months. According to the...

Liberian president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has demonstrated her readiness to handover to any of the two candidates that will be declared as the winner...

Former footballer George Weah is set to become Liberia's president following Tuesday's run-off election. The National Elections Commission said that with 98.1% of ballots counted,...

Liberian election officials began tallying votes on Wednesday from Tuesday’s presidential election, as Liberians awaited results that should usher in the country’s first democratic...

An international chess tournament is starting in Saudi Arabia amid controversy after Israeli players were denied visas. A Saudi official said visas could not be...

Liberians are to choose a new president in a run-off vote between Vice-President Joseph Boakai and former international footballer George Weah. Mr Weah, 51, won...

Four persons were killed and eight others injured in an attack by a lone gunman in Kaduna State. The killings occurred on Friday night around...

Mauritania's press union has accused the government of deliberately using an ongoing paper shortage to lock out private newspapers and favour only state-run publications,...

The US has sanctioned former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh, who is accused of looting at least $50m (£37m) of state funds before leaving office...

Israel has expressed regret over Ghana’s vote against America’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as its (Israel) capital. Ghana was among one of the 128 countries...

The Bible verse in the Gospel of St. Mark, chapter 10:9 was demonstrated to the letter at a recent wedding ceremony. As seen on the...

A Nigerian man identified as Kenny, has revealed how he saved his wife from committing suicide, after she spent the money for their house...

Yesterday, we brought you all the heart warming news of the conjoined twins who were separated in India. The twins were given birth to on...

At least two people have been killed in a fire which swept through a popular nightclub on the outskirts of Kenya's lakeside city of...

By 2050 more than one in four people on our planet will be African. Bold action is needed now to ensure that all of...

A newly-wedded bride in Sokoto, Shafa Muhammad, 28, has attacked her husband with a razor blade and injured him on the head.The couple is...

President Buhari clocked 75 yesterday! His vice, Yemi Osinbajo led state governors, APC Chieftains, Businessmen, former first ladies, others to give him a surprise...

An aide to the Akwa Ibom governor has accused Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari of abandoning the people to economic hardship and fuel crisis, while...

Rwanda has banned smoking of water-pipe tobacco, popularly known as shisha, starting Friday. Rwanda becomes the second country in Africa to ban shisha smoking after...

Ethiopia has released a veteran Somali journalist who was serving a lengthy jail term over anti-terror charges. Mohamed Aweys Mudey had spent three years...

So former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Friday bagged the award of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Christian Theology from the Department of Religious Studies,...

South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC) is preparing to choose a new party leader to succeed President Jacob Zuma. The main candidates are the...

Zimbabwe’s new President Emmerson Mnangagwa has approved early payment of salaries to government workers, the first time in three years. Zimbabwe Herald reported today that...

Deeper Life Christian Church 45,000 seater Headquarters, a project which has gone on for about 15 years has been completed. The auditorium at Gbagada area of...

A Zimbabwean court on Wednesday 13 December 2017 set free Newsday journalist Kenneth Nyangani, who was being prosecuted for allegedly writing and publishing an...

Former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has left the country to Singapore. Reports indicate that the 93-year-old is taking his annual holidays. A section of the...

The release of two musicians who were serving life sentences for the rape of primary school pupils is indicative of the Tanzanian president's "punitive"...

Two men of God have been arrested by the police for alleged ritual killing of children. The Vigilantes in Nkwerre, Imo State reportedly nabbed a...

President Jacob Zuma will appeal the judgment of the High Court in Pretoria, in which he was found to be too conflicted to appoint...

Nigeria's military has sacked the commander leading the fight against militant Islamist group Boko Haram. His redeployment to an unspecified post follows a string of...

Thousands of women in Amagu community, Abakaliki Local Government Area of Ebonyi State on Tuesday protested the arrest of their husbands and sons by...

Mabel and Steven are couples who met under the harsh conditions in Libya. They fell in love, got married and now have a son.Singer,...

Chief Olusegun Obasanjo looked confident today at a lecture room at the National Open University where he was bracing up to defend his doctoral...

Liberia's Supreme Court has ruled that evidence of fraud during October's first round of presidential elections was insufficient to merit a re-run. This means the...

Here in the Democratic Republic of Congo, there's a lot of talk around a dress. From a distance, it looks ordinary. But when you get...