At least 16 people have been killed and 400 injured in Kenya as a nationwide demonstration to honour those killed during last year’s anti-government protests turned chaotic, with police clashing wit...
Three police officers in Kenya have been charged with the murder of a 31-year-old blogger who died in police custody earlier this month. Mr Ojwang was arrested after Kenya’s deputy police chief ...
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has expressed deep concern over the slow pace of activating the ECOWAS Standby Force and urged West African leaders to move swiftly from concept to reality in the collectiv...
More than 200 gunmen on motorbikes have attacked a Niger army base near the border with Mali, leaving at least 34 soldiers dead, the country’s defence ministry said. The attackers – descri...
A Kenyan court on Thursday sentenced two men to 30 years in prison for aiding a 2019 attack by militant members of the al Shabaab group. The attack was on a hotel and office complex in Nairobi that ki...
Rwanda has arrested prominent opposition leader Victoire Ingabire. Victoire Ingabire is currently held at a detention facility in the capital Kigali on charges of inciting the public and creating a cr...
Over 60 people, including several schoolchildren, have been killed in the floods that have swept through South Africa’s Eastern Cape province. Torrential rain and snow have hit parts of the coun...
Namibia’s agriculture minister has been sacked after being accused of raping a 16-year-old girl five years ago. Mac-Albert Hengari was arrested on Saturday after allegedly attempting to bribe th...
Uganda on Saturday declared an end to the country’s latest outbreak of ebola, three months after authorities confirmed cases of the highly infectious and often fatal viral hemorrhagic infection ...
Ghana’s president on Tuesday announced the suspension of the country’s top judge while she is investigated for misconduct. The action against Supreme Court Chief Justice Gertrude Araba Esaaba Tork...
A 14-year-old girl has been killed by a lion on the outskirts of Nairobi, the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) said. The child was snatched from a residential compound on a ranch next to Nairobi National ...
The Democratic Republic of Congo has banned the party of former President Joseph Kabila from contesting elections for links to the M23 rebel group, which has seized large parts of the east of the coun...
