Africa

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has missed his third cabinet meeting in a row amid ongoing questions about the state of his health.He has not...

South Africa's scandal-hit President Jacob Zuma has abandoned a May Day rally after he was booed by workers demanding his resignation.Scuffles broke out between...

A teacher who was invigilating an exam has collapsed and died in the process causing quite a stir throughout the school. The Gauteng department of...

A group of prominent Nigerians has called on President Muhammadu Buhari, 74, to take medical leave, amid growing concern about his health.There was an...