Protests against a Nigerian police unit have received a boost from celebrity support and viral campaigning. For more than a week, the #EndSARS hashtag has been trending on social media

A judicial panel in South Africa has ordered former President Jacob Zuma to testify next month over allegations of state corruption during his nine-year rule, forcing the embattled politician to

A previously unknown painting by Ben Enwonwu, Nigeria’s most celebrated 20th Century artist, is up for auction. ‘The Court of the Oba of Benin’, thought to have been painted in

A Ghanaian member of parliament has been shot dead on Friday morning by persons suspected to be armed robbers in the central part of the country as he returned from

Authorities in Ethiopia have confirmed the killing of fourteen civilians in fresh attacks in the western Benishangul-Gumuz state with fourteen of the perpetrators who were alleged to have carried out

In a notice posted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, Airtel Africa, a leading provider of telecommunications and mobile money services, with a presence in 14 countries across Africa, said it

The Nigerian Senate has fixed October 20 to commence debate on the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), a move the Senate President Ahmad Lawan says will ensure the jinx that has

Mali’s former prime minister Boubou Cisse and other officials and military personnel detained during the August coup have been released, according to a statement by the vice president, Colonel Assimi

Leading Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate on Wednesday said climate change is forcing world leaders to make “life or death” choices, causing them to treat it as an urgent crisis. Vanessa

Hundreds of demonstrators in Namibia took to the streets of Windhoek the country’s capital Wednesday demanding an end to violence against women and children as well as calls for justice for Shannon Wasserfall

Africa’s most populous nation Nigeria has named her 2021 budget ‘Economic Recovery and Resilience’ – with her President Muhammadu Buhari saying revenue generation to fund annual budgets has been the

Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari has attributed the serious challenges facing the country’s economy to the coronavirus pandemic. Buhari stated this when he presented the country’s 2021 budget before a joint

Four people are dead while several others sustained injuries when a gas tank exploded in Nigeria’s commercial capital, Lagos state. The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, which manages emergency situations

A Nigerian professor and former chief executive of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS),  Usman Yusuf, has described the constitutional amendment process currently embarked on by the country’s legislature as

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed optimism that Ondo State Governor Rotimi Akeredolu will win Saturday’s governorship election in the south-western state of Nigeria. Buhari in a video message to party

Nigeria’s Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the award of contracts for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of the Port Harcourt – Maiduguri eastern narrow gauge railway at the cost of

Following the death of His Highness, Alhaji Shehu Idris (CFR), the Kaduna State Government has approved the appointment of Ahmed Nuhu Bamalli as the 19th Emir of Zazzau. The appointment

Ethiopian lawmakers have passed a resolution for the federal government to sever relations and contact with leaders of the northern Tigray region. The decision, announced on Tuesday by Ethiopia’s upper

Siemens delivered 3,000 personal masks to Sudan’s Ministry of Health last month to assist in the battle against Covid-19, the company’s latest humanitarian investment initiative aimed at improving living standards

A court in Kenya has found two men guilty of helping Islamist militants attack a shopping mall in 2013. Militants burst into the luxury Westgate shopping centre in Kenya’s capital,