President of the Nigerian Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has said there will be reduced electoral violence during the 2023 general elections when the amended version of the Electoral Act is passed

A commercial flight landed in Timbuktu on Monday for the first time since jihadists captured the fabled Malian city in 2012, launching a new link for local airline Sky Mali.

Amnesty International says security forces in Angola have shot dead at least 10 separatist protesters in the north-east of the country. The killings began on Saturday in the diamond mining

Tanzania has said it has no plans to import Covid-19 vaccines at a time when there are fears that infections are rising in the East Africa country. The country’s Health Minister Dorothy

Mozambique’s health ministry says the country recorded 210 deaths from Covid-19 in January, its worst month since the pandemic started. The number is more than half of the 367 deaths

The management of COVID-19 in Nigeria has not been as transparent as it should, a former governor of Anambra State Peter Obi has said. Mr Obi stated this on Tuesday

The Nigerian government has declared Kogi, a state in the north-central region of the country, a high-risk state for refusing to acknowledge the existence of the disease. The country’s Presidential Task Force (PTF)

The Nigerian government has extended the NIN-SIM linkage deadline by eight weeks. The move comes on Tuesday ahead of the February 9 deadline given by the federal government for the submission of National

The rise in the number of deaths due to COVID-19-related illnesses in Eswatini (formerly known as Swaziland) has resulted in some hospitals running out of body bags due to a surge in Covid-19 fatalities,

Nigeria’s federal government on Monday said the expected delivery date of Covid-19 vaccines has shifted from February ending to April. Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, at a sensitisation meeting

Nigeria’s federal government on Monday arraigned a Commercial Director of the Process and Industrial Development (P&ID) Limited, Mr. Muhammed Kuchazi, on money laundering charges. Kuchazi alongside his company, Kore Holdings

President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to take a decision on who will be the next Inspector-General of Police (IG) any time from Tuesday when he returns from his trip to

Age-old territorial claims are threatening to embroil Ethiopia and Sudan into armed conflict, as bickering over disputed strips of farmland in recent weeks has boiled over into the most serious

Lawyers for Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine on Monday filed a challenge in the Supreme Court against President Yoweri Museveni’s victory in last month’s election, claiming the poll was rigged.

Prince Tony Momoh, a veteran journalist, politician and a former Nigerian Minister of Information and Culture (1986–1990) during the military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida is dead

The office of the Algerian Prime Minister says it has begun discussions to have Russia’s Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine made in the country. “The two parties agreed to start contacts

Gunmen have released seven orphans who were kidnapped from an orphanage on the outskirts of the Nigerian capital, Abuja, two weeks ago. The criminals had stormed the orphanage in Abaji area