Burundian president Évariste Ndayishimiye has ordered the country’s media regulator to resolve differences with sanctioned news outlets, a rare sign of outreach by the government of Burundi. The East African nation is ranked

Morocco’s King Mohammed VI has launched the country’s nationwide coronavirus vaccine campaign, getting his injection at the royal palace in the city of Fez. The palace released pictures showing the

Rwanda has been ranked first in Africa and sixth globally in managing the Covid-19 pandemic and making the information accessible to the public. The Australian think tank Lowy Institute ranked

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has projected that Nigeria’s capital spending will improve this year while anticipating that financing the country’s deficit will remain a challenge with its huge debt

The Nigerian Senate Thursday took on the Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, over his allegation that the lawmakers are ignoring the clamour for restructuring the country, saying that the controversial

President Muhammadu Buhari has communicated the appointment of Nigeria’s new Service Chiefs to the National Assembly and has sought for the confirmation of the said appointment by the Senate through

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday called for unity among members of the international community to defeat terrorism, corruption, Covid-19 and other challenges confronting the world. The president, while receiving letters

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved an investment of N50 billion (about $126m) in Nigeria Commodity Exchange (NCX) as part of efforts to reposition it. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)

Kenya slid into a recession for the first time in at least two decades in the third quarter of 2020 as measures introduced by the East African state to slow

Another 400 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines have been secured for the African continent through the Serum Institute of India, according to the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Wednesday criticised the National Assembly for not concretely taking up the clamour for the restructuring of the country. But the House of Representatives in

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday met with the new service chiefs, urging them to concentrate their efforts on helping his administration to deliver on its electoral pledge to make Nigeria

Total revenues amounting to about N2.94 trillion ($7.7bn) were generated as both Value Added Tax (VAT) and Company Income Tax (CIT) in 2020, according to the National Bureau of Statistics

Nigeria’s Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Adamu, on Wednesday vowed that the police would arrest the arsonists involved in the inferno that razed the house of  Chief Sunday Adeyemi, popularly

Furious residents of Bamenda, the capital of Cameroon’s North-West region, have held a protest after four teenagers were killed on Sunday during an army operation in the city. Some of

Ministers of Health and Finance from Africa are set to meet the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) to discuss equitable distribution of Covid-19 vaccines. “I will tell them

Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde has said his meeting with the Nigerian leader Muhammadu Buhari sought the collaboration of the federal government to effectively tackle the security challenges in the

Authorities in Senegal on Wednesday restricted public access to a major bird park following the mysterious death of at least 750 pelicans, ruling out the possibility of bird flu after thorough investigations. The