South Africa risks turning into a “mafia state”, a senior governing party official has warned, as pressure grows on President Jacob Zuma over his links with...
Cameroon has sentenced 89 members of Nigerian militant group Boko Haram to death. Some 850 alleged members of Boko Haram, which pledged allegiance to the Islamic...
The overnight seizure of a luxury hotel in Burkina Faso’s capital by al-Qaida-linked extremists ended Saturday when Burkina Faso and French security forces killed four jihadist...
A Facebook scheme to provide free internet access to people in developing nations has been suspended in Egypt. The company’s Free Basics service lets people in...
An Air France passenger jet was forced to make an emergency landing in Kenya after a fake bomb was found in a toilet, the airline says.
Shola Adefuwa The U.S. Consulate General in Lagos, Mr. Frank Sellin has pledged to support activists from across Nigeria, working to stop gender-based violence.
A US air strike has targeted the leader of the Islamic State (IS) group in Libya and probably killed him, the Pentagon says.
Russia government Friday announced the suspension of all flights to Egypt following indications that last week’s plane crash which killed all 224 people on board was...
President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated President Alassane Ouattara of Cote D’Ivoire on his re-election for a second term in office.
Oscar Pistorius has been released from a South African prison after serving one day shy of a year in prison for killing his girlfriend and was...