Africa

Luanda, the capital of Angola, has regained top spot as the world’s most expensive city for expats, pushing Hong Kong back into second place. The...

Veteran Nollywood actor and filmmaker,  Ramsey Noah, has revealed that his kids suffer a lot of backlash because of his profession as a movie...

A Ghanaian who was arrested in April after telling his date that he was a terrorist and would blow up her University of Massachusetts...

Instead of beating or handing over a thief to the police, Baptist church members in Warri, Delta state laid their hands on him and...

This reportedly happened in a yet-to-be identified school in Lagos. A 12-year-old boy almost killed a classmate with acid because she surpassed his initial...

Nollywood actress, Tonto Dikeh showed up at her son’s school dressed up as a man for father’s day celebration.Sharing photos and videos from the...

A man allegedly beat up his wife for denying him early morning sex.According to lawyer and human right activist, Emeka Ugwuonye, the woman refused...

Ghanaian-Canadian man has been arrested for allegedly defrauding two clients by selling packaged rice to them as an iPhone.City News.ca reports that Andrew Boateng...

15 people are reported missing after a seven-storey building in Kenya’s capital Nairobi collapsed early Tuesday morning.The building located in Kware Pipeline, Embakasi in...

A 17-year-old girl, who handed herself in to South African police, is expected to appear in court, accused of killing a man who allegedly...

Kenya has the world’s 14th-fastest mobile internet speed, according to a report from the content delivery network Akamai, which collects data from more 130 countries.At 13.7...

Eleven people were killed when militants attacked a prison in the Democratic Republic of Congo and freed more than 900 inmates, officials say.The governor...

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has sacked the country's chief prosecutor, Johannes Tomana, after a tribunal found him guilty of misconduct and incompetence.Local media say...

The Army General Court Martial in Borno State today sentenced a soldier, Lance Corporal Hillary Joel, to death for killing a suspected Boko Haram...

South Sudanese President Salva Kiir has declined the invitation to the Extra-Ordinary summit of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) trade bloc to be...

Bald people have become the latest targets of witchdoctors in Mozambique, police chiefs say. Police say the body parts and heads of bald men are...

Thirty-one Chinese nationals, held for illegal mining in Zambia, have been deported.China said Zambia had provided insufficient evidence to justify the arrests.It said one...

South Africa has fallen into recession for the first time in eight years after economic growth shrank by 0.7% between January and March. The downturn,...

About thirty Cameroonian soldiers engaged in the fight against insurgent group, Boko Haram, have been arrested and sent to the capital, Yaounde.The Ministry of...

Togolese President Faure Gnassingbe has been named the new chairperson of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in Liberia’s capital Monrovia.He takes...

South Africa's ruling party has called for an investigation into emails which appear to show allegedly corrupt links between President Jacob Zuma's family and...

A 20 year old boy,  Ibrahim Aliyu Babatunde, who worked with others to kidnap his father has been arrested and paraded alongside others by the Oyo...

South Africa’s ruling party has called for an investigation into emails which appear to show allegedly corrupt links between President Jacob Zuma’s family and...

The ex-wife of Liberia's former president has been charged with torture, the Metropolitan Police said.Agnes Reeves Taylor, who was married to Charles Taylor, is...

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, 93, has called on leaders vying to succeed him to keep their ambitions in check, saying their chance to lead...

Zimbabwe's 93-year-old President Robert Mugabe has begun a series of rallies across the country in a bid to win the support of young people...

Ghana's former President John Mahama has called the decision by US President Donald Trump to withdraw from the 2015 Paris agreement on climate change...

Suspected al-Shabab militants killed a teacher and abducted another as they burned down a school late Wednesday in northeastern Kenya.The Kenyan MP from the...

More than 40 West African migrants died in the Sahara desert this week after their truck broke down in arid northern Niger, the Red...

Kenya has opened a major new railway between the port city of Mombasa and the capital, Nairobi, 18 months early.President Uhuru Kenyatta said during...

A fossil of one of the last dinosaurs living in Africa before their extinction 66 million years ago has been discovered in a phosphate...

Nigerian police are searching for six children abducted from their school on the outskirts of the main city, Lagos. The abductors freed four other children...

South Africa's embattled president Jacob Zuma has been planning to set up home in Dubai, according to emails published in the local media.The reports...

A 14-year-old maid allegedly tried to poison her master because she was rebuked. Mr. Nasiru Akinlosotu, 63, a former medicine store operator escaped death...

South Africa's embattled president Jacob Zuma has been planning to set up home in Dubai, according to emails published in the local media.The reports suggest deepening...

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

The youth are the centre of focus today as the continent marks the 54th African Union (AU) Day with ceremonies in member countries and...

Nigeria's acting President Yemi Osinbajo has extolled the virtues of hard work, while addressing civil servants.Mr Osinbajo, who is standing in for President Muhammadu Buhari,...

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...

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