LAGOS – The Nigerian navy has seized a foreign-flagged ship carrying arms and ammunition and arrested its 15 mainly Russian crew members….
JOHANNESBURG – A bomb blast used during an escape attempt from a prison van in South Africa’s main city, Johannesburg, has killed…
KAMPALA – Ugandan police are to increase social-media monitoring because of fears about the spread of “dangerous” information, according to reports. The…
HARARE – South African rapper Molemo “Jub Jub” Maarohanye has been convicted of murder and attempted murder after driving into a group…
NOUAKCHOTT – Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz has been shot and wounded in what officials say was an accident. He has undergone…
GABORONE – The Botswana High Court has overturned a customary law which prevented women from inheriting the family home. The judge ruled…
TRIPOLI – The International Criminal Court (ICC) is holding its first public hearing in the case of one of the sons of…
TRIPOLI – Libya’s Prime Minister-elect has been dismissed from his post, after failing for a second time to win parliamentary approval for…
JOHANNESBURG – A man has been killed during clashes between striking miners and police at a mine in South Africa’s platinum belt,…
CAIRO – Ahmed Ezz (C) in court, along with Egypt’s former tourism minister Zuheir Garranah (R), and former housing minister Ahmed al-Maghrabi…
