The United Nations has condemned reports of sexual attacks on women and girls in South Sudan.
Aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) on Friday reported...
Local media in Nigeria is reporting of an emerging tension within the army over the fight against militant group Boko Haram.
The tension is reportedly...
Thousands of Togolese from opposition political parties on Saturday held a street protest demanding the suspension of this month's general elections.
Togo is holding crucial...
An Egyptian actress will be going on trial for wearing what authorities say was a revealing dress.
Rania Youssef has been charged with "inciting debauchery"...
The World Health Organization has signalled that the current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is getting out of control.
The global body...
A weapons monitoring group has indicted Uganda of violating a European Union arms embargo to South Sudan.
According to the British-based group, Conflict Armament Research...
Zimbabweans on Thursday poured onto the streets of Harare to protest the decline of the country’s economy.
The protesters marched through the capital of the...
Chad is hosting a crisis summit on the activities of the militant group Boko Haram on Thursday.
The meeting which was convened by Nigeria’s president,...
Africans are increasingly coming under rights abuses and constant harassment in many European countries.
They are abused racially and in some instances deported forcefully without...
Some new apartments built at the residence of the Nigerian High Commissioner in Ghana’s capital city Accra, have been demolished by bulldozers.
The apartments have been constructed to...
Ghanaian health officials on Saturday said over 10,000 persons infected with the coronavirus have now recovered.
The significant number of recoveries means the country now...
Zimbabwe's Health Minister Obadiah Moyo has been arrested over corruption allegations related to procurement of medical equipment worth $60 million.
Moyo is accused of illegally...
