Africa

Akon's wife, Tomeka Thiam, has filed for divorce after 28 years of marriage. The divorce petition, citing "irreconcilable differences," was...

South Sudan’s First Vice President Riek Machar has been charged with murder, treason and crimes against humanity for his alleged...

The World Health Organisation has published its global cholera statistics for 2024, showing an increase in both the number of...

Burkina Faso has announced that all African nationals can now enter the country without paying visa fees, a move aimed...

Brazil’s Supreme Court has sentenced former president Jair Bolsonaro to 27 years in prison after finding him guilty of plotting...

The Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, has revealed that he is considering life beyond the...

The National Legal Adviser of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Kamaldeen Ajibade, has cautioned that the party risks losing the...

More than 800 health experts, policymakers, and technical partners from Africa, Europe, and the Americas were in Abidjan for the...

Kenya has made a bold move in the music industry by placing a $3.9 million bid to host the first-ever...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has urged its member states to reduce migrant flows as a strategy...

UN human rights investigators have warned that the Sudanese civilians are paying the highest price as the nearly 30-month-long conflict...

Rwanda has made history by launching Africa's first self-flying electric air taxi, a pilotless electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL)...

OpenAI acquires Statsig for $1.1 billion, expanding product testing tools while Adebayo Ogunlesi brings boardroom influence. Since Nigerian billionaire Adebayo...

Burkina Faso has taken a significant step in tightening its laws against homosexuality. The country's transitional parliament unanimously adopted a...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has called on its members to reduce poverty in their individual countries...

President Cyril Ramaphosa is reportedly “fuming” over National Police Commissioner General Fannie Masemola’s decision to return 121 case dockets to...

President of the ECOWAS Commission, Dr Omar Touray, has said that the regional needs approximately $2.61 billion to operationalise its...

The UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has appealed for an immediate ceasefire in and around the besieged Sudanese city of El...

Ghana's reset agenda is gaining momentum with Olam Agri, a global leader in food and agriculture, committing to invest $200...

Ministers of Defence and Finance from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) are gathering in Abuja to discuss...

Equatorial Guinea's Bioko Provincial Tribunal has handed down an eight-year prison sentence to Baltasar Ebang Engonga, a high-ranking government official...

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has appointed his daughter, Adut Salva Kiir, as Senior Presidential Envoy for Special Programmes, a...

South Africa's Constitutional Court has dismissed an application by the family of former Zambian President Edgar Lungu to appeal directly...

Global hunger rates have declined, but the trend is not uniform across all regions. According to the State of Food...

A viral claim that Namibia’s president rejected a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation proposal to conduct long-lasting hormonal IUD trials...

The public prosecutor in the Democratic Republic of Congo has demanded the death penalty for former President Joseph Kabila, who...

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has fired the country's finance minister, Marial Dongrin Ater, who had held the post since...

Botswana's President Duma Boko announced on Thursday an agreement with Qatar's Al Mansour Holdings, aimed at addressing immediate national challenges,...

Zambia is on the cusp of a major breakthrough in its agricultural sector with the near-completion of a $600 million...

The chairman of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government, Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio, has solicited...

The African Development Bank (AfDB) and Ethiopian Airlines have partnered to raise $8 billion for the construction of the new...

The ancient manuscripts of Timbuktu, a treasure trove of African knowledge and history, are making their way back to the...

On Saturday, a Sudanese coalition led by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces announced the members of a parallel government, a...

The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority states that West African countries will sign harmonised refinery regulatory agreements in...

Police in the province of South Kivu on Tuesday said up to 500 miners are believed to be trapped in...

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has dismissed his embattled higher education minister, weeks after a key party in his unity...

Zambia's government has signed an agreement that paves the way for the development of a $1.1 billion crude oil refinery...

By Ismail Abdulazeez Mantu In a groundbreaking milestone for the African continent, Egypt has become the first country to launch...

German authorities have arrested a Libyan war crimes suspect accused of being a senior official for a notorious prison where...

South African anti-migrant group Operation Dudula has taken its demands to the Human Rights Commission, submitting a memorandum that calls...