Gunfire and an explosion have erupted in the capital of Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou with witnesses saying they have seen armed men opening fire near the army headquarters and the French embassy.
Four aid workers were killed in a Boko Haram attack in Rann, in northeast Nigeria, the UN said on Friday, in the latest violence to hit the remote town.
A campaign has been launched in Ghana to end sex abuse in schools after series of media reports over the past six months detailing horrific experiences of students who are harassed and molested sexually by their teachers.
The United Nations has said that more than 10 million people who have fallen victim to Boko Haram attacks are in dire need of aid in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger.
Twenty-three people have been killed in renewed clashes between ethnic groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo's troubled east, according to an official toll on Wednesday.
Nigeria's President,Muhammadu Buhari has received the backing of his party's national executive committee to seek re-election in next year's elections.
The government of Rwanda has closed down a total of 714 churches in different parts of the country's capital Kigali for failure to meet minimum standards for their operations.
The United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres is expected to visit the Democratic Republic of Congo later this year before anticipated and overdue elections.
South Africa's parliament on Tuesday adopted a motion seeking to amend the country's Constitution to allow for the expropriation of land without compensation.
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...
