South Africa has declared four days of national mourning following the death on Thursday of the last white president FW de Klerk. The national mourning starts on Wednesday evening to Sunday... Read more

A mobile fundraising platform is refunding in full money that was being contributed towards an initiative to support teen mothers after a young Kenyan mother narrated about her struggle to r... Read more

Hundreds of protesters held demonstrations in Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou on Tuesday demanding the resignation of President Roch Kabore. The protesters accuse the president of failing... Read more

The Kenya government says security agencies are on high alert following the escape of three terror convicts from Kenya’s most secure prison. One of those who escaped was convicted for... Read more

A Kenyan court has charged the husband of the Olympic athlete, Agnes Tirop, with her murder. Ibrahim Rotich pleaded not guilty. The charges were brought a week after the defendant was ordere... Read more

Sudanese security officials have released an Al Jazeera TV network’s bureau chief who was arrested in a midnight raid two days ago. El Musalmi El Kabbashi was arrested in Khartoum and... Read more

Sudan’s coup leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has named a new ruling council with himself as the leader and excluding civilian members of the previous council. He was sworn in on Thursday... Read more

FW de Klerk, the former president of South Africa and the last white person to lead the country, has died at the age of 85. Mr de Klerk, who was also a key figure in the nation’s trans... Read more

South Africans Mamelodi Sundowns Ladies beat Rivers Angels 1-0 to register their second straight win at the inaugural Women’s African Champions League in Egypt. The Nigerians fell behi... Read more

Mali’s interim parliament vice-president has been freed, weeks after he was arrested for public order offences. Issa Kaou N’Djim was arrested in October and a ruling on his case... Read more

Police in Nigeria say they’re investigating a rare incident that led to two cousins allegedly amputating each other’s hand. It happened in the village of Alkali in the north-eastern state of... Read more

For 12 years Didier Ndabahariye has been ferrying passengers around the streets of Kigali – one of the thousands of motorbike taxi drivers, known locally as a motos. Recently, he switc... Read more

The West African regional bloc Ecowas has imposed sanctions against Mali’s transitional leaders and their families. The sanctions range from travel bans to a freeze of their financial... Read more