President John Dramani Mahama has instructed all metropolitan, municipal and district chief executives (MMDCEs) to comply with constitutional requirements by declaring their assets by 15 July, or face ...

China will negotiate and sign a new economic pact with Africa that will get rid of all tariffs on the 53 African states it has diplomatic ties with, it said, a move that could benefit middle-income ...

A court in Kenya on Thursday sentenced two men to 30 years in prison for aiding al-Shabaab militants in a 2019 attack on a Nairobi luxury hotel complex, says an africanews report. In January that year ...

Bill Gates – the world’s second richest person and co-chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – announced that a significant portion of his nearly $200bn fortune would be directed towards ...

The UK has refused to grant Economic Freedom Fighter's (EFF) leader Julius Malema from South Africa a visa due to his ‘extremism’, which that country said includes his support for Hamas and a call to ...

A collaborative investigation by international media outlets has uncovered secret prisons run by Russian Wagner mercenaries in Mali, where abuse and torture are carried out with impunity, according to ...

A second batch of 257 South African National Defence Force (SANDF) soldiers arrived at Air Force Base Waterkloof in Pretoria on Sunday following the termination of the Southern African Development ...

Environmental activists in Malawi have supported the decision by the Malawian authorities to confiscate and arrest five Zambians who were attempting to smuggle over 200kg of live crayfish into the ...

Africa is the only continent to extend from the northern temperate zone to the southern temperate zone. It is the world’s hottest continent and the second driest after Australia. Despite being nearly ...

Thirty years after the execution of Nigerian author and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eights others sparked global outrage, they have been pardoned by President Bola Tinubu, a decision that has been ...