A Nigerian court has sentenced a Chinese businessman to death after being found guilty of murdering his girlfriend Ummu Kulthum...
Ethiopia's largest bank says it has recovered almost three-quarters of the $14m (£12m) it lost in a glitch that allowed...
South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC) has failed in a legal bid to stop a newly formed party, backed...
The Senegalese president-elect has vowed to fight corruption and to prioritise national reconciliation once he takes over power. Bassirou Diomaye...
A court in Tunisia has sentenced four people to death and two people to life in prison on charges of...
Four private colleges described as being "dysfunctional" have been ordered to close in South Africa, leaving thousands of students in...
The son of Guinea-Bissau's ex-president has been sentenced to over six years in prison by a US court for leading...
Long considered one of Africa's model democracies, the west African nation of Senegal has a tradition of stable governments and...
Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Gwabin Musa, says the security challenges Nigeria is facing are man-made, and the...
Former President Jacob Zuma has been barred from running in South Africa's general election in May. The country's electoral commission,...