An Egyptian court has sentenced political activist Hisham Kassem to six months in prison over charges that stemmed from an online spat with a former minister...
The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights has ordered Tanzania to remove corporal punishment from its laws to bring them in line with the Charter...
Burkina Faso’s military junta has ordered the French embassy’s defence attache to leave the country due to “subversive” behaviour, it said in a leaked letter seen...
Popular Nigerian TikToker and Instagram influencer Mhiz Gold has taken over social media trends following the release of her nude video online. According to reports, an...
Adama and Moussa Sarr had lost track of the exact number of days they had been at sea. The brothers were drifting somewhere off the coast...
The thoughts of one Moroccan schoolteacher immediately turned to her pupils when she felt the 6.8-magnitude earthquake strike a week ago. Nesreen Abu ElFadel was in...
A Ugandan woman is currently on the run after she allegedly kidnapped her own son in an attempt to extort around $1,000 from her husband. Per...
Nigeria has been hit by widespread power cuts following a “total system collapse”, electricity distribution companies say. Levels of power being generated fell to zero megawatts...
More than half of the victims of the 31 August fire that gutted a hijacked building in the South African city of Johannesburg are still unidentified....
An earthquake has sown destruction and devastation in Morocco, where death and injury counts continue to rise after rescue crews dug out people both alive and...