Shamsiyya Abubakar had begun to lose hope - Nigeria's grave economic downturn meant she was scrambling each day to feed...
The state-run Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) on Thursday cut power supplies to the parliament over a debt of 23m...
A university student has been killed and another seriously injured by stray bullets as gunmen shot dead two men in...
A military court in Somalia has sentenced six Islamic State fighters from Morocco to death. The men will be executed...
Algeria has built one of the largest mosques the world has ever seen. It can accommodate a staggering 120,000 people...
Ali Hassan Mwinyi, Tanzania's second president, was fondly known as Mzee Rukhsa - "Mr Permission". The former leader, who died...
Nigerian Afrobeats star Asake has sparked outrage and been accused of "mocking" Christianity in the video for his latest release...
On Thursday, Ghana’s state-run Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) cut power supplies to the parliament over a debt of 23m...
Around 1,000 Kenyan police officers are set to be deployed to Haiti in a bid to combat raging gang violence....
Ghana's parliament has passed a tough new bill that imposes a prison sentence of up to three years for anyone...