Somalia’s new President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has vowed an all-out war against militant group al-Shabab. This comes days after the militants staged a deadly attack on a hotel in the cap... Read more
Raila Odinga, the losing candidate in Kenya’s presidential election, has included fresh accusations of fraud in his petition to overturn the outcome of the vote. His lawyers have filed testi... Read more
Yordanos Brhane was 15 years old when she fled Eritrea, crossing Africa and Europe in the hope of finding a better life and re-uniting with her family. Years later, the long and difficult jo... Read more
Somali Prime Minister Hamsa Abdi Barre has pledged to hold accountable officials who failed to prevent the deadly al-Shabab attack on Hayat Hotel in Mogadishu. Mr Barre made the remarks on s... Read more
Two pilots fell asleep at 37,000ft (11,000m), missing an airport runway before waking to safely land the plane, an aviation publication says. Air traffic tried to contact them after they ove... Read more
After a year-long family feud, Misuzulu ka Zwelithini is finally to be crowned Zulu king in a traditional ceremony in South Africa on Saturday. The 48-year-old is the son of the previous kin... Read more
Police in southern Nigeria have arrested three people following the discovery of 20 mummified bodies near Benin city in Edo state. The corpses were found in a building suspected to be used f... Read more
Police in Uganda have recovered the body of a UK national who drowned in the River Nile on Wednesday. Robert Kaweesi, 48, from Birmingham, was with his wife, Justine Katantazi, and their fou... Read more
The Vadoma people also known as the Bantwana tribe means “descendants” are a tribe living in northern Zimbabwe, generally in the Sipolilo and Urungwe districts of Zambezi river v... Read more
Nigeria’s former Chief of Army Staff and Minister of Interior, General Abdulrahman Dambazau, has released a stark warning that insecurity is a major threat to Nigeria’s president... Read more
Workers in Nigeria’s electricity sector have shut down the national grid as part of a strike they called over pay, causing a nationwide blackout. Their union said it wanted to compel t... Read more
The governor of Egypt’s central bank, Tarek Amer, has resigned more than a year before the end of his second term in office. The move – which triggered a sell-off of government b... Read more
Online supporters of Kenya’s former prime minister Raila Odinga have been incorrectly questioning results of the presidential election announced on Monday saying total votes were lower than... Read more
A fifth person has been arrested in connection with the high-profile killing of the daughter of South Africa’s former Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) secretary-general Gordrich Gardee.... Read more
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