Mali’s former prime minister Boubou Cisse and other officials and military personnel detained during the August coup have been released, according to a statement by the vice president, Colonel Assimi

Leading Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate on Wednesday said climate change is forcing world leaders to make “life or death” choices, causing them to treat it as an urgent crisis. Vanessa

Hundreds of demonstrators in Namibia took to the streets of Windhoek the country’s capital Wednesday demanding an end to violence against women and children as well as calls for justice for Shannon Wasserfall

Africa’s most populous nation Nigeria has named her 2021 budget ‘Economic Recovery and Resilience’ – with her President Muhammadu Buhari saying revenue generation to fund annual budgets has been the

Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari has attributed the serious challenges facing the country’s economy to the coronavirus pandemic. Buhari stated this when he presented the country’s 2021 budget before a joint

Four people are dead while several others sustained injuries when a gas tank exploded in Nigeria’s commercial capital, Lagos state. The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, which manages emergency situations

A Nigerian professor and former chief executive of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS),  Usman Yusuf, has described the constitutional amendment process currently embarked on by the country’s legislature as

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed optimism that Ondo State Governor Rotimi Akeredolu will win Saturday’s governorship election in the south-western state of Nigeria. Buhari in a video message to party

Nigeria’s Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the award of contracts for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of the Port Harcourt – Maiduguri eastern narrow gauge railway at the cost of

Following the death of His Highness, Alhaji Shehu Idris (CFR), the Kaduna State Government has approved the appointment of Ahmed Nuhu Bamalli as the 19th Emir of Zazzau. The appointment

Ethiopian lawmakers have passed a resolution for the federal government to sever relations and contact with leaders of the northern Tigray region. The decision, announced on Tuesday by Ethiopia’s upper

Siemens delivered 3,000 personal masks to Sudan’s Ministry of Health last month to assist in the battle against Covid-19, the company’s latest humanitarian investment initiative aimed at improving living standards

A court in Kenya has found two men guilty of helping Islamist militants attack a shopping mall in 2013. Militants burst into the luxury Westgate shopping centre in Kenya’s capital,

Gambia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Momodou Tangara, has said that the federal government of Nigeria saved his country’s judiciary from collapse. Tangara disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja when he

The Nigerian government has ordered a comprehensive investigation into a report by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) that revealed N2.67bn (about $6.5m) school feeding funds

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has lifted wide-ranging sanctions imposed on Mali following the military coup on August 18. The move by Africa’s regional body comes following

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has indicated he will present the 2021 budget at a joint session of the National Assembly on Thursday, October 8, 2020. The Nigerian leader made his

Ethiopia’s civil aviation authority has banned all flights over a controversial mega dam being built on a tributary of the River Nile, for security reasons. Ethiopia sees the $4.8bn Grand

Ethiopia’s civil aviation authority has banned all flights over a controversial mega dam being built on a tributary of the River Nile, for security reasons. Ethiopia sees the $4.8bn Grand

The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) has asked the Federal Government to call Chevron Nigeria Limited to order and halt moves to lay off thousands of Nigerian employees. In