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Kenya’s President William Ruto has nominated interior minister Kithure Kindiki as his new deputy president, a day…

Firms in countries like Benin, Togo and Niger Republic have failed to pay the sum of $5.79 million to the Nigerian government, a report by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has shown. The firms listed…

South African prosecutors have decided not to charge President Cyril Ramaphosa over a theft from his game farm that nearly cost him his position two years…

The deaths of five children in South Africa’s Soweto township after eating allegedly poisoned food prompted calls Thursday for a boycott of foreign-owned stores, fuelling tension in a country with a history of…

Four police officers have been arrested in South Africa after they are accused of robbery. They were accused of stealing Jewelry worth R20million (N1.9billion) in an aggravated robbery charge. The officers were named…

When an Israeli air strike killed her employer and destroyed nearly everything she owned in southern Lebanon, it also crushed Fatima Samuella Tholley’s hopes of returning home to Sierra Leone to escape the…

The Rally of Houphouëtists for Democracy and Peace (RHDP), Ivory Coast’s ruling party, has backed a fourth term for President…

Seventeen people have been killed in a mass shooting in a remote South African town with a manhunt underway to find the perpetrators, police say. Two homesteads in the town of Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape were…

Benin prosecutors said Wednesday that the Republican Guard commander, a former sports minister and a businessman had been arrested on suspicion of planning a “coup d’etat” in the small West African nation. Elonm Mario…

The Zimbabwean government has approved the slaughter of 200 elephants to feed hungry citizens. A spokesperson for the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Authority, Tinashe Farawo, confirmed the development to CNN on Monday.…

President Bassirou Faye of Senegal has dissolved the National Assembly and scheduled new legislative elections for Nov. 17. “After consulting the Constitutional Council on the right date, the prime minister and the…

Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embaló, 51, announced Thursday that he will not seek re-election in the upcoming election in November, potentially…

When he was a witch doctor, Moussa Diallo would regularly smear himself in a lotion made from a clitoris cut from a girl subjected to female genital mutilation. “I wanted to be a big chief, I wanted to dominate,”…

Burkina Faso has issued a new biometric passport without the logo of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). This move comes after Burkina Faso, along with Niger and Mali, severed ties with ECOWAS…

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said poverty challenges inherent in Africa are man-made and not from God, noting that the continent has all that it takes to create wealth. Obasanjo, who spoke at the…

Niger’s capital Niamey has been almost completely cut off from the rest of the country by rising floodwater following the heavy rains that have hit the Sahel region since June. The main routes out of the city of…

The savage rape and murder of a seven-year-old Ethiopian girl have sparked outrage in the country, with many branding her assailant’s punishment as too lenient. By Wednesday, more than 240,000 people had signed an…

The supreme court in Ghana has thrown out a suit seeking to void the law that criminalises homosexuality in the country. In a unanimous judgment, a seven-member panel of court justices led by Imoro Tanko held…

Equatorial Guinea prosecutors on Monday sought an 18-year jail term for a son o fPresident Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo for selling a plane belonging to the national airline. They also demanded that…

The Kenyan government plans to raise about $1.2 billion by reinstating some unpopular taxes contained in a finance bill that was scrapped in the face of deadly street protests, a government minister said. President…

Religion is a huge part of African culture. Perhaps because most African countries are largely underdeveloped, the church has become a place where people go to get answers and help. However, this has also led to the…

South Africa’s foriegn affairs minister Ronald Lamola has said the citizenship debacle involving a Miss South Africa contestant with Nigerian heritage had no bearing on the country’s diplomatic relations with…

Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame was sworn in on Sunday for a fourth term after sweeping to victory in elections last month with more than 99 per cent of the vote. Several dozen heads of state and other dignitaries…

Ghana on Thursday opened a new gold refinery, the first of its kind in West Africa, to bring more value from the natural resource and solidify its standing as the continent’s top gold producer. The Royal Ghana Gold…