Former Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius is making another bid for early release from the South African prison where he is serving over 13 years for murdering...
At least seven people are feared dead after they were swept away by a flooded river in south-eastern Kenya. A local chief said they were sitting...
Mali’s military government has signed an agreement with Russia that includes a gold refinery project in the Malian capital Bamako. The deal involves building the refinery...
Twenty-five people have died in Nigeria’s Niger state after the truck they were travelling in lost control and crashed on a busy expressway. The truck, which...
The army in the Democratic Republic of Congo says it will punish any soldiers in contact with a largely Hutu rebel group linked to the 1994...
South African opposition leader Julius Malema and five other MPs from his Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party were on Wednesday punished with a one-month suspension without...
A Zimbabwean mother saved her son from the grips of a baboon’s mouth after the animal tried to snatch him away, she told VOA (Voice of...
Boko Haram fighters are suspected to have carried out a revenge attack over the weekend, targeting the convoy of a Nigerian governor of Yobe State, Mai...
A French second-hand dealer is facing legal action after allegedly tricking a pensioner couple into selling an African mask they found in their ancestor’s home for...
Political parties in Tanzania are not amused with the proposed changes to electoral laws, saying they give the president more say in constitution of electoral commission....