Africa

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...

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

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...

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...