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