Gabon’s deposed President Ali Bongo has announced he will quit politics a year after he was toppled from power by a military coup. “I wish to...
In light of recent events involving the arrest of four Ghanaian students in the United States for allegedly using forged documents to gain university admission, B....
Three West African countries run by military juntas will be launching a new biometric passports “in the coming days” as part of their withdrawal from the...
Armed men have attacked a military training camp in Mali’s capital, Bamako, state television has reported. It described the attackers as “terrorists”. The announcement from ORTM...
Police in Namibia are investigating the death of four children who were playing in an empty old freezer in the north-eastern Zambezi Region. Aged between three...
Dozens of Muslim worshippers have been killed in a crash in northern Nigeria’s Kaduna state. The victims were travelling to celebrate Eid-el-Maulud – Prophet Muhammad’s birthday...
First-ever Leo Tolstoy Peace Prize was awarded to African Union Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat by Jury President and Bolshoi Theater Director Valery Gergiev in a modest...
Under Russia’s BRICS presidency, Moscow hosted the 7th BRICS Media Summit on September 13-15, which gathered the heads of leading media outlets from the association’s member...
Isata, a single mother in her early twenties, epitomises the horrors of the lives of sex workers in Sierra Leone. She has been beaten, robbed, kidnapped,...
The Nigerian authorities say more than 270 inmates are now known to be missing after escaping from custody when severe flooding damaged a prison in the...
