Africa

South Sudan’s Drugs and Food Control Authority has banned importation and sale of all skin lightening products. Mawien Atem Mawien, secretary general of DFCA, said the ban seeks to protect...

Guinea has accepted to stage the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations instead of the 2023 edition, a move that confirms Cameroon as the 2021 hosts, the Confederation of African Football...

Migrants and refugees are being subjected to “unimaginable horrors” from the moment they enter Libya and throughout their stay in that country, a UN report has stated. The report, released...

Ethiopian president, Mulatu Teshome, on Monday told the parliament that African nationals would now be able to get visas on arrival in the country. According to the website of the Ethiopian...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday called on member countries of the Economic Community of West African States to intensify efforts at achieving the single currency programme by 2020. He said...

The Foreign Affairs Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama, says President Muhammadu Buhari, will lead Nigeria’s delegation to the 73rd United Nations General Assembly in New York. The 73rd UNGA will begin September 18...

President Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi of Egypt on Thursday swore in 21 New Provincial Governors, including the First Female Governor from the country’s minority Christian Community. Manal Mikhail has been appointed governor...

President Muhammadu Buhari will lead other eminent Nigerians to inaugurate a $250m brewery owned by International Breweries Plc next week Tuesday. The Plant Manager, Mr. Tony Agah, disclosed this on...

Former UN Secretary-General and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kofi Annan has died at the age of 80. Annan, a Ghanaian national, died in hospital in Bern, Switzerland, in the early...

Lagos State has been ranked the fourth cheapest city to live in according to the  Economist Intelligence Unit report on global liveability index. According to the report, Lagos ranks not only among...