The United Nations has called on states to stop denying racism and start dismantling it. At the launch of a report commissioned after the killing last year in the US of George Floyd, the UN... Read more

Nigerian music star Burna Boy is this year’s winner of the Best International Act at the BET Awards. Burna Boy, real name is Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu, was crowned the winner of the award for t... Read more

The South African women’s football team has cancelled their trip to the Netherlands at the last minute after five positive Covid-19 tests among those set to travel. The entire delegati... Read more

“Battle lines” have been drawn in a row over who should succeed to South Africa’s Zulu throne, Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi has said. He serves as the traditional prime minister for the Zulu n... Read more

The Ethiopian military has rejected claims that its plane which crashed in the Tigray region on Wednesday was shot down by rebels. An army spokesman told the BBC that the military plane suff... Read more

Three constituencies in Zambia will not have their parliamentary elections on 12 August as the electoral commission has called for fresh nominations. The nominations calls come after one par... Read more

The Ethiopian army has denied that civilians were killed in the airstrike at Togoga village outside Tigray’s capital, Mekelle. The army’s spokesperson Col Getnet Adane told journalists on Th... Read more

A preliminary compensation deal has been reached between the Egyptian authorities and the owners and insurers of the giant ship that blocked the Suez canal earlier this year. The owners and... Read more

Former Ivorian prime minister Guillaume Soro has rejected a verdict that sent him to prison for life. “I totally reject these unfair verdicts, which have been handed down in violation... Read more

Ten members of the same family in western Nigeria’s state of Kwara have died after drinking a herbal concoction as traditional medicine, the police say. The incident happened in the village... Read more

South Africa opera singer Pretty Yende has thanked fans for their support after being subjected to what she called “outrageous racial discrimination” by French immigration authorities. In a... Read more

The former president of Mauritania, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, has been jailed by a judge in charge of a corruption investigation. He’d previously been under house arrest. Mr Aziz, who l... Read more

The family of a South African man whose girlfriend reportedly gave birth to 10 babies last week concluded in a statement released Tuesday that they do not exist until proven otherwise. ... Read more

A West African court has ordered the Nigerian authorities not to prosecute people for using Twitter while it considers a suit seeking to overturn a ban on its use. The Ecowas Court of Justic... Read more