Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has welcomed the "safe release" of 23 train passengers held hostage by gunmen since March. Officials...
Rwandan prosecutors are requesting 16 years in prison for Dieudonné Kagame Ishimwe, the Rwanda beauty pageant organiser accused of sexual...
The authorities in Zambia have charged a former health minister with corruption. Chitalu Chilufya is accused of conspiracy to defraud...
Ethiopia has extradited an Eritrean human smuggler to the Netherlands to face charges of running a large-scale human trafficking ring....
It is the second largest country in Africa and the third most populous. The Democratic Republic of Congo is a...
A witness testifying at the trial of Félicien Kabuga for his role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, which got underway...
In Congo-Brazzaville, the Challenge Futura Foundation, headed by Congolese engineer Tsengué-Tsengué, has just completed training a group of deaf people...
The last 23 hostages held by gunmen who carried out a major attack on a train in northwestern Nigeria at...
Captain Ibrahim Traoré was appointed president of Burkina Faso on Wednesday. The appointment comes less than a week after the...
A report released on Wednesday by two environmental NGO's has warned of potentially "unacceptable" damage caused by a controversial project...