Africa

Liberians are going to the polls to choose a successor to Africa's first elected female president and Nobel Peace laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.Ex-football star...

Outgoing Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has called on Liberians to vote for the one they believe will make the country a better place...

Zimbabwe's First Lady Grace Mugabe has warned of a possible coup plot amid growing tensions in the fight to succeed her husband.She says allies...

Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini has said that the banning of corporal punishment in school has led to an increase in indiscipline in learning institutions, the...

Zimbabwe police have arrested a journalist at a privately-owned daily over a story claiming that President Robert Mugabe's wife, Grace had donated second-hand underwear...

Nigeria's police chief Ibrahim Idris has ordered the immediate removal of all police roadblocks across the country.Many Nigerians will welcome the news because these...

President Uhuru kenyatta on Sunday dismissed calls by the opposition in kenya for a caretaker government if the fresh election is not held within...

An Ado-Ekiti Magistrate’s Court has remanded a 55-year-old man, Bashiru Adeyanju, in prison custody for raping his 17-year-old daughter (names withheld).Adeyanju, a resident of...

So a prospective Nigerian groom has shared online what he did to his wife-to-be that had her call their wedding off.An anonymous guy shared...

A five-year-old Nigerian boy, who was seriously injured when he was run over by Boko Haram militants three years ago, has taken his first...

The President of the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) Isha Johansen, who has been charged with abuse of office and misuse of public funds...

The floor of Uganda’s parliament witnessed chaotic scenes on Tuesday as legislators debated a motion around presidential age limits.A leading media outlet, NTV Uganda described the...

Kenyan MP Paul Ongili, better known as Babu Owino, has been charged with insulting President Uhuru Kenyatta, the Daily Nation newspaper is reporting.Mr Ongili...

Kenya’s opposition candidate Raila Odinga has told DW that some changes need to take place at the electoral commission if he is to take...

How far would you go to save water? Well, for the head of a provincial government in South Africa, it seems there is no sacrifice...

Togo will hold a referendum in the coming days to limit presidential terms, after parliament failed on Tuesday to agree the reform that the...

In a series of unresolved murders in Uganda, the 21st body of a woman has on Tuesday been found in Entebbe, near the capital,...

Kenya's Chief Justice David Maraga has said that he and other members of the legal body which selects judges are "prepared to pay the...

Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga has accused the ruling party of planning to remove presidential term limit as well as the security of tenure...

Uganda’s State Minister of Health for General Duties disguised herself as a patient and caught two medical workers demanding a bribe for free government...

The hideous and grotesque look of Benita Okereke has not made her warm disposition grow cold and hard. Rather she remains optimistic that God...

Togbe Afede XIV, Agbogbomefia of Asogli and President of the National House of Chiefs, has reiterated the call on the Economic Community of West...

Thousands of people have fled Ethiopia's Somali region following deadly clashes in recent days between ethnic Somalis and Oromos.The BBC's Kalkidan Yibeltal looks at...

The Nasarawa State Police Command has arrested a 20 -year -old housewife , Aisha Isah , for allegedly throwing her two stepdaughters , Zainab...

A 37-year-old HIV positive man from Uganda was arrested for allegedly defiling his 11-year-old twin daughter.Salongo Christopher Kityo, a fisherman operating at Gerenge landing...

A young Nigerian girl has been arrested by the police for allegedly possessing human heads.The suspect, Chidinma Ihuoma from Mbirichi, Igbo state was  apprehended...

The United States has reportedly queried the inclusion of President Robert Mugabe's family on his entourage of more than 70 people to the United...

Tanzanian President John Magufuli has stated clearly that he cannot assent to an execution of the death penalty which is legal in the East...

Opposition MPs in Kenya have boycotted the opening of the new parliament to protest against President Uhuru Kenyatta's decision to address it after a...

Togolese president, Faure Gnassingbe, has requested the cancellation of an Israeli-Africa summit scheduled for next month in the West African country, the Associated Press...

Kenyatta threatens to remove Odinga if opposition wins re-runKenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has said that if his rival, Raila Odinga, is elected president in...

No fewer than 45,000 Zulu maidens participated in the Annual Reed Dance, known as Umkhosi Womhlanga in Zulu Kingdom, South Africa, after going through...

Three men are being held by the police in Akure, Ondo State capital for the murder of three female students of Adeyemi College of...

“I believe whatever he (Faure Gnassingbe) has to do in terms of development, whatever ideas he has, he must have exhausted them by now,...

In October 2014, Nigeria received universal praise for its swift and efficient tackling of the Ebola pandemic which had struck West African neighbours Sierra...

A pastor has developed an innovative way for his church members to effectively pay their tithe.This, according to Malawain pastor, Prophet Bushiri is to...

Opposition political parties in Togo are urging the Government of Ghana and those of other West African countries to intervene in ongoing political tension...

There was drama in Kenya’s coastal city of Mombasa when two suspected car thieves, one of them with a snake around his neck, walked...

The October 17 presidential election ordered by the Supreme Court could cost at least Sh10 billion, an analysis of previous Budget estimates shows.This will...