Twenty-one young boys have died in South Africa while participating in the traditional circumcision and initiation into manhood ritual.
The rite—Ulwaluko— ancient initiation is practised...
An anti-child trafficking group in Ghana has rescued 42 children from forced labour and slavery in the country’s Lake Volta.
The not-for-profit group, Challenging Heights...
Kenya’s government has said it intends restricting access to pornographic websites. The East African nation hopes this will prevent what it calls a surge...
The World Bank has insisted it will only support Tanzania's educational programs with funding if pregnant girls are allowed into schools.
The bank had suspended...
The Vatican on Tuesday said that Pope Francis has accepted the invitation from Morocco's monarch King Mohammed VI to visit the country.
The Pope will...
Officials of a Nigerian school in Ibadan on Monday shutdown the school after some students came to class wearing hijab.
The International School Ibadan which...
Seventeen people are reported to have died mysteriously in Tema, a city 25-kilometers east of Ghana’s capital city, Accra.
The deaths have aroused anxiety among...
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...
