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A woman pictured raising her middle finger toward US President Donald Trump’s motorcade has reportedly been fired from her job over the photograph. The image...

Gunmen have attacked a local television station in the Afghan capital Kabul, with reports that people have been killed and injured. Witnesses say the attackers...

Unmarried couples in the East African country of Burundi have until the end of the year to legalise their relationships through church or state registrations. In May,...

Liberians were dying in their thousands from the Ebola epidemic that plagued the country in 2014 while donor funds sent to the Liberia National...

The Kaduna State government has provided what appears a palliative ‎for the 22,000 teachers who failed the competency test conducted. Premium Times reported how about...

Zimbabwe's Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been removed from his post, the country's information minister says. Mr Mnangagwa, 75, displayed "traits of disloyalty", Information Minister Simon...

Liberia's Supreme Court has halted the presidential run-off amid allegations of "irregularities and frauds". It says the poll cannot proceed until the electoral commission has "urgently and...

Zimbabwe’s First Lady Grace Mugabe has called for the expulsion of the powerful Vice-President, Emmerson Mnangagwa, from the ruling Zanu-PF party ahead of is...

US President Donald Trump has embarked on an 11-day trip to Asia during which he will visit Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam and the...

Pope Francis has requested that Roman Catholic priests be given the right to get married. The request applies to priests in Brazil, and is on...

The scandal surrounding Britain's political class deepened Sunday with more allegations of sexual harassment, abuse of power and other misdeeds, including new claims involving a key...

At least 27 people have been killed after a gunman opened fire at a church during Sunday services, police say. The attack happened at the...

The power of make-up transformation! Here are some before and after make-up photos that allegedly made an attempt to crash the net today. With the...

Nigeria has implemented a controversial ban on cattle grazing they say will bring peace to the area, but opponents have decried as a recipe...

The equality gap between men and women would take 100 years to close at its current rate, an economic monitoring group has suggested. It is...

Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has made a case for the return of death sentence onto the law books. Mugabe cited the increasing rate of murder...

An animal rights group in Tanzania has criticised the burning of more than 6,400 live chickens illegally smuggled from Kenya to curb the outbreak...

Liberia’s Supreme Court has ordered preparations for Tuesday’s presidential run-off to be halted amid allegations of fraud in the first round. Ex-football star George Weah and Vice-President Joseph...

An Egyptian lawyer has come under attack after stating that women who wear ripped jeans should be raped. Nabih al-Wahsh said that if a woman...

An Uzbek immigrant has been charged by US prosecutors with causing the deaths of at least eight people in New York by mowing them...

As more chefs start serving Nigerian food in expensive restaurants, Ijeoma Ndukwe asks if Nigerians will ever consider paying a lot of money for...

Kenya Chief Justice, David Maraga, on Wednesday clarified a news report that said the government had refused to beef up security for Supreme Court...

Few days ago, we brought you reports about the lovers who were found dead inside a vehicle while having sex, in the Ogba area...

Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga has rejected the results of the re-run presidential election that saw Uhuru Kenyatta gaining a second term. Mr. Odinga called...

The United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, had disclosed that thousands of Cameroonians from the restive Anglophone region continue to flee into neighbouring Nigeria. UNHCR said on Tuesday...

Togolese President Faure Gnassingbe has bemoaned the use of social media to portray him in a bad light as thousands of opposition supporters call...

Amnesty International has condemned the decision of a military court in Cameroon to sentence an opposition leader to 25 years in prison. Aboubakar Siddiki was...

Nigeria’s president Muhammadu Buhari has fired two top officials of his administration for their respective roles in two separate cases of corruption.The two officials...

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has been declared the winner of a controversial re-run of the presidential election.He won 98% of the vote with the...

US President Donald Trump has launched a Twitter tirade about the "guilt" of Hillary Clinton and the opposition Democratic Party.His Sunday morning outburst came...

Al-Qaeda affiliated Al-Shabaab have claimed a deadly car bomb attack in the Somali capital of Mogadishu on Saturday.A Somali journalist who specializes in reporting...

Former US president Barack Obama has been summoned for jury duty in the state of Illinois and is planning to serve, a court official...

Ahead of Liberia’s presidential run-off on November 7, 2017, the leading contender, George Weah is beginning to attract bigwigs boosting his chances of inching...

The police in Accra have arrested 26 Togolese nationals for planning to stage an unlawful demonstration over the political situation in their country.The suspects...

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye popularly called Daddy G.O, has revealed what he believes Nigeria needs...

An Italian accountant has been jailed for 24 years after intentionally infecting 30 women with HIV.Valentino Talluto is said to have had unprotected sex...

Burundi has become the first country to withdraw its membership from the International Criminal Court (ICC).It accused the ICC of deliberately targeting Africans for...

Ghana's inspector general of police has ordered an investigation into the alleged rape of a four-year-old girl after national outrage over the case.The parents...

A French court has handed down a three-year suspended jail term to Equatorial Guinea's Vice President Teodorin Obiang for corruption.The 48-year-old, known for his...

A mentally deranged woman identified as Mary, with a one-year-old baby, has named an Oyo pastor as her baby’s father as she provided pictures...