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By 2050 more than one in four people on our planet will be African. Bold action is needed now to ensure that all of...

The White House has said it will be shutting down its website for petitions from midnight on Tuesday until a new one is set...

A Kenyan court has awarded a schoolgirl four million Kenyan shillings ($40,000; £30,000) after she was strip-searched by police looking for drugs in 2015. Half-naked...

President Donald Trump on Monday framed his foreign policy as an extension of his populist economic message, lambasting past presidents and trumpeting his own...

A newly-wedded bride in Sokoto, Shafa Muhammad, 28, has attacked her husband with a razor blade and injured him on the head.The couple is...

President Buhari clocked 75 yesterday! His vice, Yemi Osinbajo led state governors, APC Chieftains, Businessmen, former first ladies, others to give him a surprise...

An aide to the Akwa Ibom governor has accused Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari of abandoning the people to economic hardship and fuel crisis, while...

Rwanda has banned smoking of water-pipe tobacco, popularly known as shisha, starting Friday. Rwanda becomes the second country in Africa to ban shisha smoking after...

Ethiopia has released a veteran Somali journalist who was serving a lengthy jail term over anti-terror charges. Mohamed Aweys Mudey had spent three years...

So former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Friday bagged the award of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Christian Theology from the Department of Religious Studies,...

South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC) is preparing to choose a new party leader to succeed President Jacob Zuma. The main candidates are the...

Zimbabwe’s new President Emmerson Mnangagwa has approved early payment of salaries to government workers, the first time in three years. Zimbabwe Herald reported today that...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding will be held on 19 May next year, Kensington Palace has announced. The couple confirmed their engagement last month...

Deeper Life Christian Church 45,000 seater Headquarters, a project which has gone on for about 15 years has been completed. The auditorium at Gbagada area of...

Flights at the new Dakar international airport in Senegal have been disrupted by an air traffic controllers' strike, just a week after it opened. The...

A Zimbabwean court on Wednesday 13 December 2017 set free Newsday journalist Kenneth Nyangani, who was being prosecuted for allegedly writing and publishing an...

A regional commissioner in Tanzania, John Mongella has announced that pregnant teenagers will be arrested and charged to court, The Citizen reports. Mongella, speaking on...

Restrictions on US broadband providers' ability to prioritise one service's data over another are to be reduced after a vote by a regulator. The Federal...

Nearly an equal percentage of new and old MPs said they support or oppose the proposal to scrap the presidential age limit, meaning being...

Former South African athlete Oscar Pistorius has been hurt in a prison brawl, less than two weeks after his sentence for the killing of...

Former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has left the country to Singapore. Reports indicate that the 93-year-old is taking his annual holidays. A section of the...

The release of two musicians who were serving life sentences for the rape of primary school pupils is indicative of the Tanzanian president's "punitive"...

Becoming a pilot is far from easy, but challenging gender stereotypes and becoming a female aviator is even harder. This didn't stop Indian pilot Anny...

A man wearing a homemade pipe bomb detonated his explosive in a walkway at the Port Authority Bus Terminal near Times Square on Monday,...

The two women alleged to have taken part in a lesbian marriage in Tanzania were last Friday arraigned before a court. Milembe Selemani, 35,...

Charges of indecency have been dropped against 24 women who were caught wearing trousers at a party near the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. The gathering was...

Two men of God have been arrested by the police for alleged ritual killing of children. The Vigilantes in Nkwerre, Imo State reportedly nabbed a...

Up to 10 million people in Iran are living with disabilities, campaigners say, but the culture surrounding the issue is largely one of shame,...

At least 14 UN peacekeepers have been killed and 53 wounded in an attack in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The UN’s...

Israel says it has targeted sites in Gaza belonging to the militant group Hamas in retaliation for rocket strikes. Israel's military said it hit weapons...

President Jacob Zuma will appeal the judgment of the High Court in Pretoria, in which he was found to be too conflicted to appoint...

Nigeria's military has sacked the commander leading the fight against militant Islamist group Boko Haram. His redeployment to an unspecified post follows a string of...

Thousands of women in Amagu community, Abakaliki Local Government Area of Ebonyi State on Tuesday protested the arrest of their husbands and sons by...

Mabel and Steven are couples who met under the harsh conditions in Libya. They fell in love, got married and now have a son.Singer,...

Chief Olusegun Obasanjo looked confident today at a lecture room at the National Open University where he was bracing up to defend his doctoral...

Pope Francis has called on the Roman Catholic Church to alter the Lord’s Prayer because he believes the current translation suggests God is capable...

Liberia's Supreme Court has ruled that evidence of fraud during October's first round of presidential elections was insufficient to merit a re-run. This means the...

Same-sex marriage has been officially signed into law in Australia, a day after MPs overwhelmingly approved a historic bill. Australia's Governor-General Peter Cosgrove signed off...

Here in the Democratic Republic of Congo, there's a lot of talk around a dress. From a distance, it looks ordinary. But when you get...

Russia's Vladimir Putin has said he will seek another term as president, in next year's election. He made the announcement in a speech to workers...