Rescue operations have commenced in northern Zimbabwe, where dozens of illegal miners are believed to be trapped underground after the collapse of an old mine shaft. Mining without the proper

Uganda’s Supreme Court has jailed Ivan Samuel Ssebadduka for using abusive language against them, including calling them “incompetent fools”. According to local media, Ssebadduka, a former presidential aspirant was sentenced

A former Prime Minister of Sudan, Sadiq al-Mahdi has died from coronavirus three weeks after being hospitalised in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). He was 84 years old. A statement

The Ethiopian military will begin the “final phase” of an offensive in the rebellious northern Tigray region, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said in a statement on Thursday, hours after an

A report by the Global Terrorism Index (GTI) has shown that Nigeria witnessed an increase in Boko Haram attacks on military targets last year. “Over the past year, Boko Haram increased attacks

Four soldiers in southwest Chad were killed and dozens injured in an explosion on a boat thought to have been caused by an improvised bomb, Reuters news agency reports. The

Nigeria’s land borders, closed since August 2019, may soon be reopened, the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed said during an interview with State House correspondents on

Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has deactivated his personal twitter account saying he would rather talk to his wife and sleep. The president also cited insults as his reason for quitting

South Africa’s inflation jumped to 3.3% in October, compared to the 3% percent registered in September. According to the country’s Slstatistics office, inflation was driven by increases in the price

The United Nations has expressed concern about possible war crimes after a threat by the Ethiopian army to start an assault on the northern Tigray region’s capital. A deadline set

Governors and leaders of Nigeria’s South-South region are insisting that the country be restructured and true federalism practiced. As part of multiple issues raised, they demanded the relocation of the

Former Niger President Mamadou Tandja has died at agef 82, the government said Tuesday. Tandja, who was elected to lead Niger twice from 1999 to 2010, was eventually overthrown in

Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, Tuesday said the bank would raise its  Covid-19-targeted facility from N150 billion (about $395m) to N300 billion ($790m) in order to

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday inaugurated Nigeria’s biggest modular refinery and says the establishment of modular refineries in the country will make petroleum products available in the country and eliminate

Nigeria’s federal government has announced plans to end fish importation in the next two years as it asked fish importers to consider producing fish locally. The Minister of Agriculture and

Analysts on Monday described the federal government’s projection that the economy, which slipped into a recession in the third quarter of 2020, will recover latest by the first quarter of

The Nigerian Senate has approved President Muhammadu Buhari’s request to refund N148bn (about $389m) to five state governments for projects executed on behalf of the Federal Government. The approval for

Oil facilities operated by Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) and Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) in Bayelsa state were on Monday attacked by yet to be identified persons in Yenagoa