Africa

A large fire has ripped through the Houses of Parliament in Cape Town, South Africa. Firefighters were called to the...

The Lagos State Police Command has uncovered an illegal security outfit where people are killed and buried in shallow graves...

Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed says he has suspended Prime Minister Hussein Roble’s powers, sparking accusations of an “indirect coup”...

Officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo say at least six people have died in a suicide bomb attack on...

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace prize laureate who helped end apartheid in South Africa, has died aged 90. This...

Nigeria’s presidency says dozens of people have been killed in violence between farmers and herders in the country’s central Nasarawa...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has said Ghana and Africa must stop being beggars and stand on their own feet. “We need...

A university in Nigeria has confirmed an incident where a final year student was attacked and set ablaze for refusing...

Gunmen in Nigeria’s Niger state have shot dead at least 16 worshippers in a mosque. A number of others have...

Burkina Faso President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré has in a decree dismissed Prime Minister Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré and dissolved...