Africa

Femi Gbajabiamila, the Speaker of Nigeria's House of Representatives has requested debt cancellation for African countries, as against debt relief or review. The Honourable Speaker made this request recently in...

The daughter of actor Richard Mofe-Damijo, Nicole has recounted on Twitter how she and members of her team were removed from an important project in Africa because they are Nigerians....

Mali's military junta has said it would withdraw from military pacts it signed with France. The country cancelled the agreements it signed in 2014 when then French President Francois Hollande...

NBA star, Bismack Biyombo of the Phoenix Suns has announced that he will use his annual salary of $1.3 million to construct a hospital in his country, the Democratic Republic...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced the outbreak of the Ebola disease in Africa after the death of two people of the disease in the Democratic Republic of the...

Niger's Minister of Communication, Mahamadou Zada, has been jailed for allegedly being involved in a high-profile embezzlement case. While briefing AFP recently, a judicial source said the amount involves three...

Six midwives are facing trial in Senegal after a pregnant woman, Astou Sokhna,  died in a public hospital. The lawyer of the deceased said Astou Sokhna, in her thirties, waited...

A Chinese man has been sentenced to 20 years in jail for torturing Indigenous mineworkers in Rwanda after a video which showed him whipping a man tied to a post...

Mobility service provider, Uber has suspended its operations in Tanzania indefinitely following the imposition of a "fare guide" imposed by the Land Transport Regulatory Authority (LATRA). The company, in a...

The UK government will send asylum seekers in the country to Rwanda in a bid to crack down on unauthorized migrants, the Prime Minister’s Office announced recently. While making the...