Nigeria’s anti-narcotics agency has seized a 30kg consignment of methamphetamine valued at $1.2m (£960,000) that was to be shipped to the UK through the main airport…
Former Mastercard boss Ajay Banga has been elected to lead the World Bank as it strives to help low-income countries overcome debt and combat climate change.…
South Africa has unveiled new banknotes and coins. The country’s first major upgrade to its currency in more than a decade The South African Reserve Bank…
Kenya’s President William Ruto has defended his daughter Charlene Ruto over claims of the existence of the “Office of the First Daughter” and also denied that…
North Korea has fired three short range ballistic missiles towards the sea to the east of the Korean peninsula, South Korea’s military says. This latest volley…
The world’s longest-serving head of state, the president of Equatorial Guinea, has been sworn in for a sixth term in office. Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, who…
Two TikTok stars in Nigeria have been sentenced to a whipping and forced to clean the court after they used social media to mock a government…
Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has resigned after another day of mass protests rocked the capital Khartoum. Thousands marched against a recent deal he had done…
The Gambia’s President Adama Barrow was overwhelmingly re-elected, according to officials, in the first poll held in decades without long-term leader Yahya Jammeh. President Barrow garnered…
The Kenyan film board says that a documentary film about the life of a gay couple in Kenya has been banned in the country. In a…