Pape Gueye’s stunning goal in extra time won the Africa Cup of Nations final for Senegal - after hosts Morocco...

Pope Leo XIV has appealed for peace in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, where renewed fighting has forced...

Media were awash with reactions on Sunday after images of a same-sex wedding, showing two men — one Nigerian —...

In a market in southeastern Nigeria, a short man wearing one earbud recently made his way to the tool section,...

The Nigerian government has filed criminal charges against Mike Ozekhome, one of the country’s most famous lawyers, over a long-running...

When Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya raised his right hand and took the oath of office as Guinea’s president, the moment was...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved the immediate disbursement of about US$261 million to Ethiopia following the completion of...

At least eight people have died in Mozambique since 21 December due to the heavy rainfall, according to the National...

When Yoweri Kaguta Museveni first marched into Kampala in January 1986 at the head of his National Resistance Army, he...

Uganda’s long-serving President Yoweri Museveni has secured a decisive victory in the country’s latest presidential election, winning a seventh term...

The US has accused South Africa's defence ministry of refusing to obey orders from its own government to send home...

As Morocco’s national football team prepares to contest the final of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations, the country has...

  An internet blackout, widespread reports of rigging and intimidation and opposition arrests have clouded the elections. Uganda’s long-serving president,...

Residents of Makoko, a 19th-century fishing community in Lagos Lagoon often referred to as the “Venice of Nigeria”, have been...

President Donald Trump said he’s weighing tariffs against countries that don’t go along with his push to acquire Greenland. Trump...