The Catholic Bishop of Enugu in Nigeria, Callistus Onaga, has called for week-long prayers over church vandalism by supporters of a controversial priest. On Wednesday supporters of Father Ej... Read more

The Zulu queen, Shiyiwe Mantfombi Dlamini Zulu, is due to be laid to rest in a private ceremony South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province. She died unexpectedly in Johannesburg last week,... Read more

Protesters in the south-eastern Nigerian city of Enugu went into wild jubilation after a popular Catholic priest was seen hours after protests were held over his absence. Father Mbaka report... Read more

A Ugandan former child soldier who became a commander of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army has been sentenced to 25 years in jail by the International Criminal Court (ICC). Dominic Ongw... Read more

Dominic Ongwen, the Ugandan rebel commander who has just been sentenced to 25 years in jail, was the first former child solider to be convicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC)... Read more

The secretary-general of South Africa’s African National Congress (ANC) has refused to comply with his suspension after being charged with corruption. The dispute illustrates a power s... Read more

Ace Magashule, the suspended secretary general of South Africa’s governing party ANC, has hit back by seeking to suspend President Cyril Ramaphosa as president of the party. “I h... Read more

The remaining 27 students abducted from a forestry college in the northern Nigerian state of Kaduna have been freed. They were among 39 students seized from their dormitories by armed crimin... Read more

A 25-year-old Malian woman has given birth to nine babies – two more than doctors had detected during scans. Halima Cisse gave birth to the nonuplets in Morocco. Mali’s governmen... Read more

Uganda’s parliament has passed a bill criminalising human sacrifice and prescribing life sentences on conviction for related offences. Until now, the country’s laws did not provide for the c... Read more

A Malian woman has given birth to nine babies, in what would be an extremely rare case. Halima Cisse, 25, gave birth on Tuesday to five girls and four boys in a Moroccan hospital where she h... Read more

A member of the Hirak protest movement in Algeria has been sentenced to two years in prison for offending Islam and insulting the president. Activists say that Amira Bouraoui has not been de... Read more

A court in Egypt has ruled that the Ever Given – the massive container vessel that blocked the Suez Canal in March – will continue to be held as a dispute over compensation shows... Read more

Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu has arrived in Kenya at the start of a two-day state visit, which analysts say is aimed at ending frosty relations. She is expected to speak publicly... Read more