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Two Nigerian brides abandoned their respective wedding receptions in order to sit their final exams, a move that delighted their head of department, local...

Police in Kenya are looking into the authenticity of a video purportedly showing a police officer assaulting a man.National Police Service-Kenya✔@NPSOfficial_KEOur attention has been...

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The Arewa Pastors Non-denominational Initiative for Peace in Nigeria has vowed to expose the pastors working against President Muhammadu Buhari. The leader of the group,...

Fast-rising Nigerian artiste, Ali Zainab Nielsen aka Alizee, has reportedly been shot dead alongside her 4-year-old daughter, Petra Nielsen. She was allegedly murdered this morning...

Thousands of supporters of former South African president Jacob Zuma are expected to march to the Durban High Court on Friday, where Zuma will...

Leading AI experts have boycotted a South Korean university over a partnership with weapons manufacturer Hanwha Systems. More than 50 AI researchers from 30 countries...

Election observers in the just-ended Sierra Leonean elections are demanding an apology from the losing party for accusing former President John Mahama of spearheading...

A Nigerian man is currently facing marital crisis over an unused vibrator he had bought for his wife. According to reports, the man identified simply...

Ghana’s High Commissioner to UK and Republic of Ireland, Papa Owusu-Ankomah has underscored the need for deepening the City of London’s relationship with Ghana...

A Kenyan registrar has revealed he has a backlog of more than 80,000 birth certificates - because the official paper is yet to be...

A former military commander and rebel leader who later went to graduate school in the United States and Britain was declared the winner of...

It's a cloudy Sunday morning in Kenya's Kwale county and Sande Ramadan just woke up to get ready for another weekend of work.Wearing a...

• A Malawian man has revealed to his family that DNA results have confirmed four of his six children are not his • The man...

The Nigerian and Swiss governments have signed a memorandum of understanding that will see looted funds from Nigeria returned to that country. For decades, Switzerland...

Two prisoners have escaped from a maximum security jail in the Colombian capital, Bogotá, by getting a guard drunk and convincing him to let...

Struggle stalwart Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has passed away. The apartheid icon has been ill for a number of years and was most recently admitted to Milpark...

The Pope has called for an end to the “carnage” in Syria during his Easter message from the Vatican. He also asked God to heal...

China has imposed tariffs of up to 25% on 128 US imports, including pork and wine, after US President Donald Trump raised duties on...

African Union troops in Somalia killed at least 30 al-Shabab fighters as they repulsed an attack by the armed group on their base, the AU...

The Trump administration is seeking to change visa applications to require all applicants to turn over five years of social media history. The move is...

Illegal workers have invaded the farm of former Zimbabwean first lady Grace Mugabe to mine for gold. Reporters from the Zimbabwean newspaper Newsday found them...

The Vatican has reacted to a comment credited to Pope Francis in which he’s quoted as saying that hell doesn’t exist. On Thursday the...

“There is no hell where the souls of sinners suffer in eternity”, Pope Francis he told Eugenio Scalfari, a 93-year-old atheist philosopher, today, during...

A South African woman who hurled racist abuse at a black police officer in a clip that went viral has been sentenced to three...

The Uganda Communications Commission has suspended 23 radio stations for advertising and promoting witchcraft, news site the East African reports Describing the stations as lacking "minimum...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday ordered an end to special legal status for certain immigrants from Liberia, including some who have lived in...

Usually a trip to an Irish beach requires putting on more clothes rather than taking them all off. But for people who can 'bare' the...

Eight leading columnists of Kenya’s largest media group, NMG, have resigned over loss in editorial independence Kenya’s government are reportedly cracking down on the media...

Gold castings of the hands of South Africa’s first black President Nelson Mandela have been sold for $10m (£7m) in bitcoin. Canadian crypto-currency exchange firm...

A video surfacing on Social media shows some Nigerians rushing to a dump pit to dig out buried chickens allegedly declared contaminated by Nigerian...

There are over 80,000 ghost police officers in Nigeria, data from the office of the Accountant-General of the Federation has revealed. According to local media...

Brazilian police have arrested the Catholic Bishop of Formosa, Jose Ribeiro, on allegations that he stole about 2 million reais ($608,000) from church coffers,...

The son of Angola's ex-President José Eduardo dos Santos has been formally accused of fraud over the alleged illegal transfer of $500m (£350m) from...

At least 53 people have died in a fire that tore through a shopping and entertainment complex in the Siberian coal-mining city of Kemerovo. As...

Ivory Coast’s ruling coalition secured an overwhelming victory on Saturday in the country’s first senatorial elections, which were boycotted by the opposition who have...

Former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe says South Africa should have sent troops instead of a team of negotiators to prevent his ouster by the...

Armed police have shot a suspect who took hostages at a supermarket in the southern French town of Trèbes. The gunman, who is reported to...

Members of Zambia’s main opposition party have submitted a motion in parliament for the impeachment of President Edgar Lungu. The motion, which was submitted to...