Africa

Burkina Faso’s junta administration has unveiled a new generation biometric passport that no longer carries the insignia of the Economic Community of West African...

The man who had been chief engineer at South Africa’s state-owned passenger rail company has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for faking...

A financial statement published by the World Bank has placed Nigeria as the third largest debtor to the Bank’s International Development Association (IDA) as...

The Lagos State Police Command has apprehended Dr. Idara Bassey, who was wanted in connection with the death of a 36-year-old woman during a...

The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has been awarded an honorary doctorate degree by the University of Cape Coast (UCC) in recognition of his...

Burkina Faso has launched new biometric passports without the logo of West Africa's main political and economic bloc on their cover, further signalling its...

A daughter of the former South African President Jacob Zuma and the king of Eswatini, formerly Swaziland, have become engaged during a traditional ceremony...

A British national has said he is at a loss as to why the Nigerian police have accused him of planning to overthrow Nigeria’s...

The Edo State Police Command has said it has arrested a 19-year-old self-acclaimed native doctor over the death of his client.The native doctor, who...

After being hounded over her nationality and forced to drop out of the Miss South Africa contest, Chidimma Adetshina has been crowned beauty queen...

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has issued an emergency tender to secure mpox vaccines for crisis-hit countries in collaboration with the Gavi vaccine...

US rapper, Fatman Scoop has died aged 53 after collapsing at concert on Friday in Connecticut, his representative has told the BBC.He was halfway...

A Nigerian woman based in Canada, Amaka Sunnberger, is under probe for threatening to poison Nigerians of Yoruba and Benin extractions.A representative of the...

A recent report has revealed that between July 2023 and June 2024, Nigerians paid N1.048 billion in ransom to kidnappers.The report by SBM Intelligence...

Tears and sorrow filled the air as friends, family, and fans gathered to bid farewell to Nollywood veteran and music icon, Onyeka Onwenu at...

Newly updated vaccines against Covid-19 will be in pharmacies soon, just as the US is experiencing a surge of infections. But is it a...

Black Stars head coach Otto Addo on Thursday 29th August 2024 announced a 23-man squad for the upcoming 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON)...

An employee of the Nigeria Aviation Handling Company, Auwal Dankode, has been hailed for his integrity after returning $10,000 found in a plane.The worker...

South African billionaire, Johann Rupert has overtaken Nigerian industrialist Aliko Dangote as Africa’s richest person, according to the latest data from the Bloomberg Billionaires...

A 3,500-year-old jar has been accidentally smashed into pieces by a four-year-old boy during a trip to a museum in Israel. The Hecht Museum in...

In a bizarre and unsettling incident in  Zimbabwe, a 58-year-old woman was arrested after allegedly using a live tortoise to threaten her Human Resources...

Four months after the tragic drowning incident that claimed the lives of actor Jnr Pope and three crew members, film producer, Adanma Luke has...

As record numbers of young Africans risk their lives trying to reach the Canary Islands, Spain’s Prime Minister begins crisis talks with Senegal, Mauritania...

Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan has named a "troublesome" lion after one of the country's opposition leaders.President Samia was visiting the Tanzania Wildlife Authority...

Doctors in Nigerian public hospitals have started a seven-day nationwide strike to demand the release of their colleague, Dr Ganiyat Popoola, who has been...

At least 49 people have been killed and thousands displaced in Nigeria after heavy rains caused flooding in the northeast of the country, the...

A recent Afrobarometer survey has unveiled alarming perceptions about the impact of climate change on agriculture across Africa.According to Dr Edem Selormey, Director of...

A  man whose mother turned him in to police after he confessed to a string of crimes was on Friday sentenced to life imprisonment...

South Africans are paying tributes to their “favourite teacher", William Smith, who has died aged 85.The beloved maths and science teacher and innovator died...

Uganda has confirmed two more mpox virus infections, bringing the number of cases in the East African country to four, according to the health...

Messaging app Telegram has said its CEO Pavel Durov, who was detained in France on Saturday, has "nothing to hide". Mr Durov was arrested at an airport...

Former President John Dramani Mahama is in Lagos, Nigeria, as a special guest for the Nigerian Bar Association’s 64th Annual General Conference.Mr Mahama is...

The second-largest diamond ever found - a rough 2,492-carat stone - has been unearthed in Botswana at a mine owned by Canadian firm Lucara...

An anonymous whistleblower in Nigerian cyberspace, PIDOM Nigeria, has gone missing, and his social media accounts have been compromised, an exposé by Investigative Journalist,...

Many Nigerians have reacted with outrage after a new plane was bought for President Bola Tinubu at a time when the economy is experiencing...

An "alarming number" of 400 dogs are thought to have died over the past month in Zambia after eating contaminated maize and humans could...

Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu travelled to France on Monday for a “work stay” on a newly acquired private jet, sparking criticism as the West...

Following the invitation of the President of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Joe Ajaero, by the police on allegations of criminal conspiracy, terrorism financing, treasonable...

Mpox is "not the new Covid", because authorities clearly know how to control its spread, a leading World Health Organization expert has said. Despite real...

A police commander in Tanzania's capital, Dodoma, has been removed from her post following controversial comments in which she linked an alleged gang-rape victim...