Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed a dead man into office, naming the late Tobias Chukwuemeka Okwuru as a board member for a government agency, two months after he died... Read more
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has blasted Members of Parliament for allocating themselves a total of 10bn Ugandan shillings ($2.6m; £2m) to raise awareness on coronavirus. The pre... Read more
A Nigerian woman put up for sale on Facebook in Lebanon has been rescued – days after a man suspected of involvement in the advert was arrested. The advert caused an outcry in Nigeria.... Read more
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved emergency funds to support Nigeria’s efforts to limit the effect of coronavirus pandemic and the sharp fall of oil prices. The $3.4bn (£2.7... Read more
Global remittances are forecast to decline by about 20% this year as the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic shuts down business activity, the World Bank says. This is the sha... Read more
Sitting outside her grass-thatched house, in a lush part of the northern Ugandan countryside, Jeanette Aromorach described how her son became a victim of the coronavirus pandemic – eve... Read more
Editor’s note: To maintain the family’s safety and anonymity, all names have been changed and details that identify the village have been omitted. Just weeks after Dina... Read more
Burkina Faso’s security forces have allegedly executed 31 unarmed detainees in a northern town, Human Rights Watch said, calling for an immediate investigation. The men, all from the F... Read more
Polls have opened in Mali for the second round of legislative elections that come despite an armed conflict and a looming coronavirus pandemic. Voters in the nation of 19 million will c... Read more
Less than two months after Egypt became the first country in Africa to confirm a coronavirus case, the outbreak appears to have reached almost every nation on the continent of 1.2... Read more
The Nigerian president’s chief of staff, Abba Kyari, died on Friday after contracting the new coronavirus, two presidency spokesmen said on Twitter. Kyari, who was in his 70s and had u... Read more
Five months earlier, the Nigerian student had moved to Guangzhou, southern China, to study computing at Guangdong university. He had just paid his university fees for the new semester when h... Read more
A Nigerian taxi driver who stripped himself naked on the highway to protest his arrest by security operatives has been sentenced to six months in prison. Officials had arrested Emmanuel Imho... Read more
Twenty million people living in Nigeria’s second-biggest city, Kano, have just started a seven-day lockdown. Poverty and religion are the major issues at play, with some saying obeying... Read more
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