Africa
Sierra Leone lifts curfew after breakout from Freetown's Pademba Road Prison
There will be a new nine-hour night-time curfew beginning at 21:00 local time (21:00 GMT) on Monday,...
Nigerian student faces jail time, deportation over threat to bomb UK university
Somtochukwu Okwuoha, 26, claimed he had enlisted ISIS, an international terrorist organisation, to h...
Niger junta sues ECOWAS, Court to rule Dec 7
The coup leaders asked the ECOWAS court to immediately lift the sanctions imposed on them by their W...
SA parliament suspends opposition leader Malema, other MPs for a month
The parliament's powers and privileges committee found them guilty of contempt of parliament for sto...
South Africa calls on ICC to issue arrest warrant for Israel's Prime Minister
SA's Minister in the Presidency said if the ICC did not do this, it would signal a "total failure" o...
Nigeria frees 4,000 inmates jailed over fines
Interior Minister Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo said those freed were inmates who had been in custody for not p...
Kenya's parliament approves police deployment to Haiti
The MPs' decision came on Thursday, just as the court was hearing a petition on the legality of the ...
South Africa has referred Israel to ICC - Ramaphosa
“As South Africa we have accordingly, together with many other countries in the world, saw fit to re...
Togolese journalists jailed for defaming minister
Newspaper editor Loic Lawson and freelance reporter Anani Sossou had accused the housing minister of...
I’m no longer married to my ex, we’re divorced, woman says
She said the marriage, which was contracted under the Urhobo Native Law and Custom, has been dissolv...
Why South Africa regrets its liberal post-apartheid asylum laws
Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has announced plans to toughen asylum and immigration laws in...
Ex-doctor on trial in France over Rwanda genocide
Sosthene Munyemana was a 29-year-old gynaecologist living in the south of Rwanda at the time of the ...
South Africa: A judge found that a man did not intend to rape his girlfriend, Supreme Court to hear appeal of case
It is an appeal by the Director of Public Prosecutions, Eastern Cape, against a local high court rul...
Burundi prosecutors seek life sentence for ex-Prime Minister
Mr Bunyoni’s trial started in September, a year after he was fired by President Evariste Ndayishimiy...
Ex-Zimbabwean minister convicted for smuggling fuel
The country's National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) proved that the quartet smuggled a tanker filled ...
Scores of Zambian opposition MPs suspended amid row
The lawmakers defied orders to leave the plenary after they accused the Speaker of denying them an o...
Criminals have declared war on South Africans - minister
This is after the country's transport minister was robbed at gun-point in a daring attack on Monday....
Police arrest suspects over Cyril Ramaphosa farm robbery
Dubbed "farmgate", the controversy first came to light when Arthur Fraser, the former head of the co...
Guinea ex-ruler taken by armed men back in jail
The group stormed a jail in the capital, Conakry, early on Saturday morning - taking Capt Camara and...
Germany asks forgiveness for Tanzania colonial crimes
German forces killed almost 300,000 people during the Maji Maji rebellion in the early 1900s, one of...
Zambian ex-president stripped of retirement benefits
Mr Lungu lost the presidency to Hakainde Hichilema in 2021, after which he announced his retirement....
Ugandan court fines US couple for child cruelty
The compensation resulted from a plea deal, which led to the court dropping charges of aggravated tr...
Legal row over 2,800,000% mark-up for African mask
The pensioner couple found the mask from Gabon at the home of an ancestor who had been a colonial go...
Fake TikTok doctor arrested at South African hospital
Matthew Lani was arrested by the security of Johannesburg’s Helen Joseph Hospital as he attempted to...
Kenyan MP censured for wearing Palestinian scarf
Farah Maalim said he was wearing the scarf in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, amid the fightin...
