LAGOS – Nigeria will invest $10bn (£8bn) in its oil-rich south to end an insurgency by militants, the oil minister has said….
LAGOS – Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari did not take kindly Friday to reports his wife may not support his re-election: The first…
JOHANNESBURG – South Africa has formally begun the process of withdrawing from the International Criminal Court (ICC), media reports say. They say…
JOHANNESBURG – There has been chaos at Wits University, with two students arrested after protests. The university’s management says it will do…
DAR ES SALAAM – Tanzania’s president has sacked two senior officials for opening a fake account to siphon money from an earthquake…
JOHANNESBURG – By lunchtime on Tuesday a number of universities across the country had been disrupted by protesting students‚ with some closing…
DAR ES SALAAM – A magnitude 5.7 earthquake has killed at least 13 people and injured 203 in northern Tanzania, the authorities…
LONDON – More than two billion people could be at risk from Zika virus outbreaks in parts of Africa and Asia, according…
LIBREVILLE – Gabonese security forces have stormed the headquarters of the defeated presidential candidate, Jean Ping, after they accused “armed criminals” of…
JOHANNESBURG – Kenya’s former President Mwai Kibaki has been discharged from a Johannesburg hospital where he was admitted on 21 August. The…
