Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has taken a significant early lead in the presidential race, according to preliminary results released by the electoral commission on Friday morning. Mr Museveni has garnered

Following concerns over the opaqueness of the recent allocation of expected 100,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines to states by the federal government, governors of Nigeria’s 36 states are making moves

After two days of meetings with Malian political and civil society figures, the mediator for the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), former president, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, has expressed

In a self-assessment on Thursday, President Muhammadu Buhari awarded his administration high marks, saying the country is better than he met it more than five years ago. But the main

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has cautioned those threatening the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Matthew Kukah, to stop their “unlawful” actions. It also asked President Muhammadu Buhari

The Nigerian Army’s Defence Headquarters (DHQ) on Friday raised the alarm over the purchase of fertilisers by suspected terrorists to manufacture explosives. The Coordinator of the Directorate of Defence Media

The Nigerian government has said the January 18, 2021 resumption date for schools is unchanged. The country’s ministry of education on Thursday in a statement and signed by Ben Goong, director, press and public relations

Preliminary research has detected a new variant of the coronavirus in Kenya, with the research carried out by the state-linked Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri) The variant, unique to Kenya,

Dubai-based airline Emirates says it will suspend all flights to and from South Africa from 16 to 28 January. The decision had been taken for operational reasons, it said, without

Several governors in Nigeria have criticised the number of doses of Covid-19 vaccines allocated to their states by the Federal Government as the country prepares to receive its first batch

A court in Guinea’s capital, Conakry, has sentenced two activists to one year in prison after they were arrested during pre-election demonstrations. Souleymane Condé and Youssouf Dioubaté were also fined

Nigeria’s presidency on Wednesday waded into the raging controversy over the Christmas homily of the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Hassan Kukah, with a caution to an Islamic group

Nigeria’s Presidency has accused fiery Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Kukah of greatly offending many Nigerians with his controversial remarks against the government and the person of the President Muhammadu

West African regional group ECOWAS has called on Mali to as a matter of urgency prepare its plan for elections to replace the transitional government put in place after the

Ethiopia and Sudan have continued to trade accusations over a border dispute as tensions between the two East African neighbours escalate. Ethiopia’s foreign ministry says Sudanese armed forces have pushed

Ethiopia’s opposition satellite channel Esat TV reports that more than 100 people have been killed in renewed ethnic attacks in the restive area of Metekel in the country’s western Benishangul-Gumuz region.

A former Nigerian military Governor of Lagos and Imo States, Rear Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu (rtd), has died of suspected COVID-19 complications. A source close to the family confirmed his death in Lagos