More than 30 prisoners have escaped after a police van that was transporting them to a law court was attacked by gunmen in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. Some prisoners remained in

Authorities in Mauritius have issued a disaster alert over heavy rains that have caused flooding in several locations in the country. The Indian Ocean island has recorded more than 100

Martha Koome, a Kenyan Court of Appeal judge has been nominated as the country’s next chief justice. Judge Koome will become the first woman to hold the position. The Judicial

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has testified as a witness before a long-running inquiry into allegations of corruption under his predecessor Jacob Zuma. In his opening statement, Mr Ramaphosa said

Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed has announced he will not attempt to extend his term by two years, bowing to domestic and international pressure after clashes in the capital, Mogadishu.

The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) on Tuesday doubled down on its recent disclosure that Nigeria does not know its actual daily oil production. The Executive Secretary of the

British Minister for Africa, Mr. James Duddridge, at a meeting with Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chief Geoffrey Onyema, said the disturbing trend of violence unleashed on Nigerians by Boko

Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, and his Sokoto State counterpart, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, Tuesday called for cooperation among the seven states in the North-west in tackling banditry and kidnapping.

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday reached out to the United States and other important and strategic partners for help in combating the worsening security challenges facing Nigeria. Buhari, during

Members of Nigeria’s organised private sector (OPS) have urged the federal government to rise to the occasion and arrest the worsening insecurity in the country in order to salvage the

A former President of Nigeria’s Senate, Bukola Saraki says the country’s President Muhammadu Buhari has been overwhelmed by the worsening insecurity, one which the All Progressives Congress (APC) led federal

Two Spanish citizens have been killed in an ambush in eastern Burkina Faso, the Spanish government said. The Spanish journalists and an Irish citizen went missing during an attack by

Protesters in N’Djamena, the Chadian capital have burnt tyres and French flags, with smoke filling the sky in the country’s capital. Their rallying cry is the dissolution of the transitional military council. They

A former Nigerian Vice President Atiku Abubakar says the federal government must stop treating acts of criminality with kid gloves as darkness awaits the country if nothing is done to put an

Civilians in Somali are fleeing several areas of the capital, Mogadishu, fearing renewed clashes between forces supporting President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo and those backing the opposition. Both sides have occupied different parts

Yet to be identified gunmen have attacked the Ebonyi State division of the Federal High Court, and reportedly used petrol bombs to set the federal institution ablaze. The building, located in Abakaliki, the southeastern Ebonyi state capital

Nigeria’s minister of communications and digital economy Isa Ali Pantami says he is in possession of credible intelligence which shows that there are plans by “forces of evil” to release doctored videos that will portray Pantami in

The Nigerian Airforce says it is investigating reports of an alleged airstrike on soldiers of the Nigerian Army. Reports had emerged that about 20 soldiers were killed after a fighter