The Police has stopped the live coverage of the ongoing trial of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, who is facing a 13-count criminal charge bordering on false...
Attack claimed by IS on Tripoli airport kills 3: Libyan official Tripoli (AFP) – Militants attacked Tripoli’s airport on Friday and killed three security personnel,...
Presidential guard officers in Burkina Faso have announced the dissolution of the transitional government. A new “national democratic council” has taken control, an officer said...
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhar Photo: Getty Images Muhammadu Buhari, the Nigerian president, has said his government may consider releasing jailed Boko Haram fighters in exchange for...
Families on the run often surviving brutal attacks in Nigeria are now threatened with the lack of food, water and deadly epidemics in neighbouring Cameroon,...
On September 11, 2001, 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda hijacked four airliners and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the...
Corruption should be punishable by death in Nigeria, labor officials said Wednesday in the capital city of Abuja. Their call falls within a broader effort by Nigerian...
Community volunteers conducting Ebola awareness raising activities in Port Loko, Sierra Leone. Photo: WHO/S. Gborie The United Nations health agency’s special envoy on Ebola response...
Photo: UNODC An independent United Nations human rights expert has condemned the recent executions of 10 people in Chad who were suspected of being members...
According to statement by the Senior Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Garba Shehu said “the documents...
On Saturday, August 29, Egypt’s Cairo Criminal Court sentenced journalists Mohamed Fahmy, Baher Mohamed, and Peter Greste to three years in prison, in the latest...
SPLA soldiers in Bentiu, Unity State. Photo: AFP/File South Sudanese rebels have accused government troops of rapping women, girls, and burning down villages in Unity...
China’s economic engagement in Africa tends to elicit controversy. Many Chinese deals are accompanied by Western headlines such as “China in Africa: Investment or Exploitation?”;...
Algerian army troops on Tuesday overnight killed a senior leader of an armed group linked to al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), and his assistant...