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PHOTOS: Ghana marks AU Day

Today Thursday, May 25, 2017 is 54th African Union (AU) Day and Ghana joins the rest of the continent in commemorating the day. AU Day...

World’s third penis transplant successfully done in South Africa

A team of surgeons from Stellenbosch University (SU) has successfully performed a second penis transplant, making it the first medical centre in the world...

500 Islamic scholars pray for Nigeria’s ailing President Buhari

A total of 500 Islamic scholars from 14 districts of the northwestern Nigerian state of Zamfara have prayed for ailing Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari...

Yahya Jammeh ‘stole $50m’ from state

The Gambia's former president stole "at least" $50m (£38.4m) from the state before he left the country in January, the justice minister has said. Yahya...

Yahya Jammeh ‘stole $50m’ from state

The Gambia's former president stole "at least" $50m (£38.4m) from the state before he left the country in January, the justice minister has said. Yahya...

Ghanaian asylum seeker charged for raping woman at knife point in Germany

A Ghanaian asylum seeker has been charged with raping a woman at knifepoint in front of her boyfriend days after learning he was going...

Fourth person in probable Ebola death in Congo: WHO

A fourth person has likely died from Ebola in remote northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization said on Sunday, as the...

Cholera outbreak claims 315 lives in Yemen

A cholera outbreak in war-ravaged Yemen has killed 315 people since April 27, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Sunday. The cholera infection...

South African men march against abuse of women and children

Hundreds of protesters, most of them men, have marched in the South African capital, Pretoria, over rising levels of violence against women and children. One...

Photos: 82 Chibok girls reunited with families in Nigeria

A group of the "Chibok girls" freed from Nigeria's Boko Haram militants have been reunited with their families. The 82 girls, who were part of...

Combined wealth of Dangote, Adenuga, Otedola, Alakija, Danjuma can end extreme poverty in Nigeria

The combined wealth of Nigeria’s five richest persons, estimated to be about $29.9 billion, can end extreme poverty in the country, a report by...

Mayor, journalists ‘mistakenly’ arrested at Tanzania bus crash victims’ school

23 people including Arusha mayor and ten journalists have been arrested during a visit to the school of the victims of the May 6...

Photo: Meet the 52-year-old virgin who has never kissed

A 53-year-old woman who prides herself as a virgin has revealed she has never kissed any man in her life. Thembisile Ntaka from South Africa...

Sudan’s Bashir declines to attend Saudi summit with Trump

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has decided not to take up an invitation from Saudi Arabia to attend an Islamic summit at which US President...

Nairobi’s prettiest thug buried after police shooting

Police on Thursday arrested three men shortly after they had attended the burial of the suspected teenage gangster Claire Njoki Kiboi. Detectives raided the 18-year-old...

Ghanaian couple win ‘right to stay in UK’ case against Theresa May

Instead, they are thought to have been represented by their families in accordance with the Ghanaian ‘customary law’ on marriage. Mr Awuku’s father stood in...

Zuma endorses ex-wife as ANC leader

South African President Jacob Zuma has endorsed his ex-wife and former AU chair Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma as the next leader of the African National...

Generations actor killed trying to stop robbery

South Africans are paying tribute to a former actor on popular local TV series Generations who was killed during a mugging on Sunday night. Mandla...

Zuma endorses ex-wife as ANC leader

South African President Jacob Zuma has endorsed his ex-wife and former AU chair Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma as the next leader of the African National...

Ebola outbreak declared after three die in DRC

An Ebola outbreak has been declared in the northeast region of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The World Health Organisation says three deaths are being...

‘I dressed as a man to work in a mine’

Pili Hussein wanted to make her fortune prospecting for a precious stone that's said to be a thousand times rarer than diamonds, but since...

African migrants flee poverty to get sucked into world of violent crime

Six months after Muhammed Yusuf had been sold, tortured and forced to watch as a friend died, he found himself back at the parched,...

Man finds out wife has p3nis on their wedding night

A married man has been left in a dilemma after he found one his wife whom he dated for a year before marriage had...

WHO Confirms Ebola Case in DR Congo

A person has tested positive for the Ebola virus in the northern Democratic Republic of Congo. A spokesman for the World Health Organization says officials...

Video: Barbed wire electrocutes thief to death

Many days for the thief but one day for the owner they say, This thief didn't have the opportunity to answer to the owner...

SA shocked at woman’s murder, burning

The man believed to be the boyfriend of a 22-year-old woman whose killing has shocked South Africa has appeared in court in Johannesburg to...

Zuma appeals against court order

South Africa's President Jacob Zuma is appealing against a High Court ruling ordering him to give reasons for his controversial decision to sack widely...

How my pastor ruined my marriage – Woman cries in court

A civil servant, Mrs Victoria Igbo, on Monday, told a Nyanya Customary Court, Abuja, that her pastor hurried her into marrying the wrong man. Victoria,...

Mugabe ‘resting eyes, not sleeping’

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's spokesman has hit back at critics who accuse him of falling asleep at public events, saying the 93 year old...

Chibok girl ‘refused to be released’

One of the Chibok girls kidnapped by Islamist militants Boko Haram chose to stay with her husband instead of being freed, a spokesman for...

‘Journalists like stealing chicken’ – Zambia minister

Minister of Housing and Infrastructure Development Ronald Chitotela explains a bad joke he made Tuesday evening, where he told journalists not to steal chicken. The...

Zuma appeals for help to find ‘kidnapped’ Nikoi

Almost two months since Unicef director Charlotte Nikoi’s disappearance, President Jacob Zuma appealed to anyone who may have information to come forward and assist...

Dumsor to hit Zimbabwe Over unpaid electricity bills

South Africa’s state-run electricity company has threatened to pull the plug on its neighbor Zimbabwe if it fails to clear unpaid debts by the...

South African town hit by riots after white farmers get bail

Riots have hit a small town in South Africa after a magistrate granted bail to two white farmers accused of murdering a 16-year-old black...

Obasanjo is under a spell — Ex-wife claims

The controversy over the date for the wedding of Tope Adebutu, the daughter of Chief Kessington Adebutu and the son of Olujonwo Obasanjo, a...

Nigeria Chibok girls: Freed 82 to meet President Buhari

The 82 schoolgirls released by Boko Haram Islamist militants are to meet Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari. They were escorted to the reception in the capital...

Prophet takes money, three houses from woman to cure her fibroid

The police in Lagos have commenced an investigation into a case involving one Oladele, 45, a prophet at a church in Oke-Ira, in the...

TB Joshua reveals the source of his Power

As preparations heat up for his relocation to Israel, Prophet T.B. Joshua, founder of Synagogue Church of All Nation has revealed the mystery behind...

Zimbabwe second-most developed country in Africa – Mugabe

Zimbabwe is the most highly developed country in Africa after South Africa, President Robert Mugabe has said. He denied that the country was a fragile...

‘Troops mistakenly’ kills Somali minister

Somalia's security forces have shot dead a 31-year-old government minister after mistaking him for a militant Islamist, officials have said. He was killed in his...