Zimbabwe has imposed an immediate ban on the export of raw lithium and lithium concentrates after authorities said they witnessed...

WASHINGTON — Laws designed to ensure equal economic opportunities for women are only half-enforced on average across the world, indicating...

PREAMBLE We, the Catholic Bishops of Nigeria, held our First Plenary Meeting for the year at the CSN Resource Centre,...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has issued a pointed warning that escalating hostilities in the Gulf could...

The president of Iran’s football federation has suggested the country could boycott the World Cup following the US and Israeli...

For months, Israeli and American intelligence agencies — including the CIA — had been secretly watching Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei...

Scotland has become the first part of the UK to legalise hydrolysis, an environmentally friendly alternative to cremation or burial,...

When Africa’s richest industrialist, Aliko Dangote, announced plans to build the continent’s largest Linear Alkyl Benzene (LAB) plant, the news...

The discovery of at least 169 bodies in a mass grave in northern South Sudan has laid bare the scale...

Nigeria has signed a $1.3 billion (£1 billion) agreement with the Africa Finance Corporation to construct a major alumina refinery...

Zimbabwe has begun releasing almost 4,000 inmates under a presidential amnesty announced earlier this year, in a move the Government...

Rising military tensions in the Middle East have begun to ripple across global trade routes, as major shipping companies divert...

Accra, Ghana — Ghana is rebounding from its worst economic crisis in decades, President John Dramani Mahama told Parliament on...

Abuja and Lagos — Two of Nigeria’s busiest airports, Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja and Murtala Muhammed International Airport...

Somali government troops, alongside Ugandan soldiers serving under the African Union Support and Stabilisation Mission in Somalia, have launched a...