Nigeria’s Senate has passed a high-profile sexual harassment bill, focused on preventing the sexual harassment of students in university education. The proposed legislation follows a B... Read more

Senegal has renamed a square in its famed memorial slave island Goree, in response to the global anti-racist movement inspired by George Floyd, the African-American who died in US as police... Read more

The bodies of at least 180 men have been found in mass graves in northern Burkina Faso, according to a report by Human Rights Watch. The graves were found in a region where government forces... Read more

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has said that 49 millions Africans could be pushed into extreme poverty by the coronavirus pandemic. The AfDB said on Tuesday that West and Central Africa... Read more

Zimbabwe’s largest nursing union says police have arrested more than a dozen nurses and union representatives protesting against poor pay. The nurses are demanding to be paid in US dol... Read more

A new report by the International Crisis Group says that greater cooperation and intelligence-sharing is what is needed to successfully defeat Boko Haram terrorists in the Lake Chad region.... Read more

The Egyptian security services are reported to have detained a young woman who has a big following on TikTok in the latest arrest of a female social media influencer. Hadeer al-Hady is repor... Read more

Burundi and South Sudan could soon lose their membership of the East African Community, which could undermine the stability of the regional economic bloc. The EAC’s Assembly has voted... Read more

Malawi’s new president, Lazarus Chakwera, has called off independence celebrations and further scaled back plans for Monday’s formal inauguration. Both events were due to be mark... Read more

Nigeria’s health minister says Covid-Organics – a herbal tonic produced in Madagascar and touted as a cure for coronavirus – has ingredients used for malaria treatment, but... Read more