Chinese peacekeepers with the UN stabilisation mission in eastern DR Congo attended a departure ceremony on Tuesday as the force withdraws from the war-torn region. The 15,000 MONUSCO troops deployed...

At least 38 migrants and refugees, including children, have died after their boat sank off the coast of Djibouti, the United Nations migration agency has said, after their bodies were...

A public hospital in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi has laid off 100 doctors who are taking part in a nationwide strike for almost one month. The Kenyatta University Referral Hospital said...

Nigeria's financial oversight agency, EFCC, reports that as part of an ongoing corruption investigation involving a suspended minister, the country has recovered 30 billion naira ($24 million).  The agency disclosed...

South Africa's former President Jacob Zuma is free to run in May's general election after an electoral court overturned a ban on his candidacy. Last month the electoral commission barred...

A fire broke out at a popular Lagos Island market, Dosunmu Market, on Tuesday. An X user, Adunni, shared a video from the scene, stating, "Just in guys, Eko Idumota...

Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame met his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa and they reaffirmed their support in finding a "political situation" to the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo....

Judges in South Africa will on Tuesday rule on whether former president Jacob Zuma will be allowed to appear on the ballot in May elections. Zuma, who is running for...

On Monday afternoon, a fire engulfed a three-storey building on Breadfruit Street in Balogun Market, Lagos State.  Margaret Adeseye, Director of the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, issued a...

Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki has appointed Omobayo Marvellous Godwin, a 38-year-old Engineer, as his Deputy. This follows the removal of Comrade Philip Shaibu as Edo Deputy Governor. Below are...