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

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

Teams of Chinese doctors have set off to Ethiopia and Burkina Faso to support efforts to fight coronavirus pandemic, state-owned China Global Television Network reports. Their exact num... Read more

Confirmed COVID-19(coronavirus) cases in Africa is 13,813 with 2,425 Recoveries and 749 deaths as 12th April 2020(16:25 GMT) The 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic was confirmed to have spread to... Read more

Zimbabwe’s embattled national airline is to send some of its staff on indefinite unpaid leave later this month following a drop in revenue caused by global travel restrictions. Air Zim... Read more

South Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, who is also the current head of the African Union (AU), has defended the World Health Organization (WHO) following President Trump’s criticism of t... Read more