Africa

The World Bank has raised the alarm over rising debts in African countries, including Nigeria. While releasing ‘Africa’s Pulse’, a biannual analysis of African economies in Washington on Wednesday, the...

Ghana will not sign an agreement with Washington to set up a military base, President Nana Akufo-Addo said on Thursday. The president confirmed in a television address that the two...

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the South African anti-apartheid campaigner and former wife of the late President Nelson Mandela, has died at age 81. The family said in a statement that she passed...

US President Donald Trump decided Tuesday to end the protected status of thousands of Liberian migrants to the United States and gave them a year to leave the country. It’s...

Zimbabwean police are investigating former ruler Robert Mugabe’s wife Grace, accused of smuggling ivory worth millions to underground foreign markets, a state-owned weekly reported Sunday. The Sunday Mail said investigators...

Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn's announcement that he was calling it quits came after years of growing instability and protests in the Oromia and Amhara regions of the country, and  heavy-handed...

Cyril Ramaphosa has become South Africa’s president a day after embattled leader Jacob Zuma resigned, the BBC has reported. Ramaphosa was the only candidate nominated by parliament, which is dominated by his...

The president of South of Africa, Jacob Zuma, has resigned after days of challenging the orders from the ruling African National Congress to leave office. The former anti-apartheid activist, and has...

Police in Egypt have arrested Abdul Moneim Aboul Fotouh, a leading opposition figure and former presidential candidate, over his alleged ties with the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group. On the orders...

Kenya-born Frenchman Abraham Kiprotich and Ethiopian Herpha Guta on Saturday led their compatriots to dominate the 2018 edition of the Access Bank Lagos City Marathon as they won the first...