A South African court is set to reopen an inquest into the death of Chief Albert Luthuli, a renowned anti-apartheid campaigner and Nobel Peace Prize winner. Luthuli's death was initially...

General Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, who seized power in a coup two years ago, has been handed a seven-year mandate after winning over 90% of the vote in Gabon's first...

Charles Bassey, a member of Nigeria's 1980 Africa Cup of Nations-winning team, has passed away after a prolonged battle with ill health. Bassey's death was confirmed by the Nigerian Football...

The Edo State Security Network has apprehended four suspected armed travellers in Benin City, recovering a cache of weapons including three Dane guns, six empty cartridges, three half-filled cartridges, four...

The US government has successfully negotiated the release of Robert Vieira, an American citizen who was detained in Tunisia for 13 months on suspicion of espionage while doing missionary work....

Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka has criticized the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation's ban on Eedris Abdulkareem's song "Tell Your Papa", which criticizes President Bola Tinubu's administration over the worsening economy and hardship...

The Plateau State Police Command has confirmed the killing of Julius Mangai, a 45-year-old vigilante chairman of Butura Kampani Village in Bokkos Local Government Area. Intelligence sources told newsmen that...

A devastating assault by Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on the Zamzam Camp for displaced people near al-Fasher has left hundreds dead or wounded, with aid groups describing it as...

A joint military operation in north-west Nigeria has resulted in the deaths of a notorious bandit kingpin, Gwaska Dankarami, and 100 of his suspected followers. Dankarami, reportedly the second-in-command to...

Tanzania's main opposition party, CHADEMA, has been barred from participating in the upcoming general election after failing to sign a code of conduct document. The party's leader, Tundu Lissu, was...