Seven persons including President Faure Gnassingbe, leader of the Union for the Republic (UNIR), have been cleared by Togo’s Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) to contest the c... Read more

Kenya’s longest serving President Daniel arap Moi who died on Monday rose to power in 1978 upon the death of Kenya’s first President Jomo Kenyatta. This was his first major polit... Read more

Malawi’s constitutional court has annulled last year’s controversial election, which saw President Peter Mutharika narrowly re-elected. The judge found there had been widespread... Read more

As many as 20 civilians have been killed in an overnight attack in north-western Burkina Faso. Unidentified heavily armed men on motorbikes carried out the attack on a village in Bani munici... Read more

At least 20 people have been crushed to death and 16 others injured during an outdoor religious service in Tanzania. Worshippers were attending a Pentecostal service at a stadium in the nort... Read more

Authorities in Cote d’Ivoire have tested the first person on the African continent for the Wuhan coronavirus, Cote d’Ivoire’s Ministry of Health and Public Hygiene said in a stat... Read more

Nigeria, West Africa’s most populous nation has been granted the ignominious honour of being second most corrupt nation in West Africa, a report by Nigerian’s credible Punch Ng has disclosed... Read more

Zimbabwe’s junior doctors have agreed to return to work, ending a strike that has lasted for over four months, after they accepted an offer from a Zimbabwean telecoms billionaire. The... Read more

Former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh will be arrested if he attempts to return to the country, a minister has told the BBC. Justice Minister Aboubacarr Tambadou said he would like to prosec... Read more

Leaked documents reveal how Africa’s richest woman made her fortune through exploiting her own country, and corruption. Isabel dos Santos got access to lucrative deals involving land, oil, d... Read more

Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos, who is embroiled in a huge financial scandal, has suggested that she may seek to become the country’s president. In a BBC interview, Ms Dos Santo... Read more

More than 4,000 mass graves have been found in Burundi following an investigation by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission into conflicts since independence in 1962. The commission, set up... Read more

The authorities in Guinea say they will respond vigorously to any violence at a planned opposition protest due to start later on Monday. Opponents of President Alpha Conde accuse him of plan... Read more

The number of people killed by a measles epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo has passed 6,000, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. The WHO says the epidemic is the world... Read more