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ANC gathers to choose leader to replace Jacob Zuma

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 workers to be paid before Christmas for the first time

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...

Photos: Deeper Life Church completes N5Billion headquarters

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...

Zimbabwe: Reprieve for journalist prosecuted over donation of used undergarments

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

Mugabe flies to Singapore for annual holidays, first trip since ouster

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...

Release of child rapists in Tanzania condemned

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"...

Photos: Pastors arrested for ritual murder

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...

Zuma to appeal ruling banning him from appointing prosecutions chiefs

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 sacks anti-Boko Haram general

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...

Women protest arrest of Husbands by the police

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

Hot video: Meet Libyan migrants who fell in love and are now married

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,...

Photos: Obasanjo defends project work

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 elections: Court gives go ahead for run-off poll

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...

PHOTO: Condom dress creates a stir in DR Congo

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...

'Abacha loot': Switzerland to return $320m to Nigeria

The Swiss government has announced that it will return $320m (£240m) of the money allegedly stolen by Nigeria's late military ruler Sani Abacha. The money...

Grace Mugabe reportedly files for divorce

Former First Lady of Zimbabwe, Grace Mugabe has reportedly filed for divorce from her 93-year-old husband Robert Mugabe after he was ousted as the...

Zimbabwe’s Mnangagwa replaces ministers after outcry

Zimbabwe’s new President Emmerson Mnangagwa has replaced two ministers, two days after announcing his cabinet. Critics said the original line-up showed Mr Mnangagwa had no...

Pastor increased his tithe to 30%

The General Overseer of Omega Fire Ministries (OFM) Worldwide, Apostle Suleman, took to social media to disclose that he just increased his tithe from...

Photos: Nigerians run Libya slave camps: Cameroonian returnee

The new slave trade-human trafficking in Libya is being carried out by many nationalities, including Nigerians and Ghanaians, according to a Cameroonian returnee, who...

Ghanaian prisoners beaten to pulp in Libya for making phone call

Fifteen Ghanaian prisoners have been beaten to pulp in a prison in Libya for possessing phones. The fifteen were identified and subjected to serious beatings...

Kenya: Odinga to be sworn-in on December 12

Kenya’s main opposition leader, Raila Odinga has promised supporters that he would be sworn-in as president on December 12. The announcement comes shortly after the...

Kenyatta sworn in for new term

Uhuru Kenyatta has been sworn in for a second term as president of Kenya at a ceremony in the capital, Nairobi, boycotted by the...

500 rich Nigerians targeted over tax payments

Nigeria's government plans to write to 500 wealthy Nigerians with property and trusts abroad, urging them to come clean about their tax status or...

Nigeria's love affair with a Norwegian fish

"The taste of stockfish is life... We can't cook without stockfish." That's the verdict of women at the bustling Onyingbo market in Nigeria's commercial capital,...

French President Macron to visit Ghana in first Africa tour

French President Emmanuel Macron starts his first tour of Africa on Monday. He is to visit Ghana, Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire in an...

Zimbabwe officially declares Mugabe national holiday

Zimbabwe has officially declared 21 February to be Robert Gabriel Mugabe National Youth Day, thereby making the former president's birthday a public holiday, the Herald...

How Mugabe was persuaded to step down by a priest

As a young priest, the Rev. Fidelis Mukonori collected evidence of atrocities during Zimbabwe's brutal civil war. The reports filtered to Robert Mugabe, then...

'Boko Haram leader’s house to be converted into a museum'

The Borno Government says plans are on the way to convert the house of the former leader of Boko Haram sect, Mohammed Yusuf, to...

Zimbabwe: Crowds gather to see Emmerson Mnangagwa sworn in

Crowds are gathering at a 60,000-seat stadium in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, to witness the swearing-in of Emmerson Mnangagwa as the country's president. It follows the...

Zimbabwe's new leader to be sworn in

Emmerson Mnangagwa is to be sworn in as Zimbabwe's president, following the dramatic departure of Robert Mugabe after 37 years of authoritarian rule. The former...

Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe granted immunity

Zimbabwe's former president Robert Mugabe and his wife have been granted immunity, the military said Thursday, allowing the couple to remain in the country. Col....

5000 Nigerians to hold national thanksgiving on Buhari’s recovery

The National Inter-faith Thanksgiving Project for the Survival of President Muhammadu Buhari and Stability of Nigeria says it is moblising 5000 Nigerians for thanksgiving...

Robert Mugabe's 'genuine' famous quotes

During his 37-year rule of Zimbabwe, 93-year-old-Robert Mugabe built up an impressive amount of controversy, mostly by using colourful and often hateful language. We list...

'New democracy unfolding' in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe's incoming leader Emmerson Mnangagwa has hailed a "new and unfolding democracy" after returning from exile to replace Robert Mugabe. He also vowed to create...

Mugabe's backdoor exit a shame – Alpha Conde

President of the African Union (A.U.) Alpha Conde has reacted to the resignation of Robert Mugabe, a week after the army took over political...

Mugabe’s backdoor exit a shame – AU President

President of the African Union (A.U.) Alpha Conde has reacted to the resignation of Robert Mugabe, a week after the army took over political...

Jubilation in Zimbabwe As Mugabe Era Ends

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has submitted his resignation after nearly four decades as the country's leader. Mugabe defied demands to step down for almost a...

Zimbabwe's President Mugabe 'resigns'

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has resigned, parliament speaker Jacob Mudenda says. The surprise announcement came as lawmakers debated an impeachment motion against the 93-year-old leader...

PHOTO: Thieves dig tunnel under Kenyan Bank, make away with over $482,000

Robbers in Kenya took a rather unconventional mode of entering a bank and making away with cash to the tune of 50 million Kenyan...

Robert Mugabe vows to stay on despite army pressure

Zimbabwe's embattled leader Robert Mugabe has vowed to stay in power for several weeks, despite intensifying pressure on him to stand down. In a live...