Members of the Parliamentary select committee for Local Government and Rural Development led by Chairman Hon. Emmanuel Gyamfi, MP for Odotobri, is in the Eastern Region to inspect Common Fun... Read more
The Eastern Regional Directorate of the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) has been hit with leaked sensual images involving one of its staffs at the Regional Office. Mybrytfm... Read more
Nigeria’s new anti-corruption chief on Tuesday announced that $153m (£108m) had been recovered from the country’s former oil minister Diezani Alison Madueke who fled to the UK in... Read more
More than 4,000 people, including leaders from across the continent, have attended President Yoweri Museveni’s swearing in ceremony in Uganda’s capital, Kampala. Mr Museveni won... Read more
Double Olympic champion Caster Semenya has been ordered to complete 50 hours of community service after pleading guilty to reckless driving. The world-beating 800m runner entered a guilty pl... Read more
Senegal’s former World Athletics president Lamine Diack ‘is a worthy son of the nation’ according to the man who has organised to pay a surety to allow his return home. Dia... Read more
“Civil war has broken out in Lod.” That is how Mayor Yair Revivo described the situation after violence exploded in the mixed Arab-Jewish Israeli town, lying 15km (9 miles) south... Read more
The Taliban have taken control of a district near the Afghan capital, Kabul, a day before a three-day ceasefire is due to begin. The militants confirmed on Tuesday that they had captured Ner... Read more
Tributes have been paid to actor Norman Lloyd, who worked with Alfred Hitchcock and later appeared in medical drama St Elsewhere, following his death at 106. Judd Apatow, who directed him in... Read more
The deadly exchange of fire between Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip and the Israeli military has escalated significantly, with the UN fearing a “full-scale war”. More tha... Read more
The Chairperson of the African Union Commission has condemned the bombing of the Gaza Strip by Israeli forces and its “violent attacks” against worshippers in the Al-Aqsa Mosque.... Read more
Two transgender Cameroonians have been sentenced to five years in prison and fined 200,000 francs ($370; £261) each. Njeukam Loic Midrel, an internet celebrity who is known as Shakiro and Mo... Read more
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni is being sworn in on Wednesday for his sixth term. He won re-election in a disputed poll in January. Security has been increased in the capital, Kamp... Read more
Prosecutors in Egypt have ordered the release of a group of men accused of gang raping a young woman in a luxury hotel in 2014. They cited insufficient evidence to sustain a trial. They also... Read more
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