Somalia says it’s making efforts to mitigate the impact of Kenya’s decision to suspend flights to and from the country. The country’s transport minister, Duran Ahmed Farah said he had

Kenya’s High Court has blocked a government-backed plan to make fundamental changes to the country’s constitution. The judgement is arguably the most significant ruling by Kenyan courts since President Uhuru

President Muhammadu Buhari has pledged Nigeria’s support to ensure the Republic of Chad stabilizes and return to constitutional order. The Nigerian leader stated this on Friday at the State House, Abuja, while hosting

Kenya’s High Court has ruled a drive by President Uhuru Kenyatta to change the constitution as illegal, stopping a move critics say was designed to check his deputy, whom he

A Nigerian Minister of Niger Delta Affairs Godswill Akpabio and his wife Ekaete Akpabio have distanced themselves from killers of a 26-year-old female job seeker, Iniubong Umoren after they were linked to the criminals by investigative

Zambia has dissolved its parliament exactly ninety days before the South African country’s upcoming general election. The house held its last sitting on Wednesday and the clerk announced that it would formally dissolve on Friday. The

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has urged the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) to caution those it described as extremists, who are not well-grounded in the faith

President of the Nigerian Senate, Dr. Ahmad Lawan, and Speaker, House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, on Thursday took on the 17 Southern governors, who rose from a meeting on

The Nigerian Minister of Justice and Attorney general of the Federation Abubakar Malami has said the federal government will through the Ministry of Justice’s Complex Case Group, resuscitate the existing

Patrick Soon-Shiong, a South Africa-born pharmaceutical entrepreneur has pledged $211m from his family’s foundation to help develop vaccine production in South Africa. Dr Soon-Shiong, who is now based in the

Reports in Paris, the French capital, suggest Ivory Coast’s Prime Minister, Patrick Achi, is in hospital. Reuters news agency quoted sources close to Prime Minister as saying he is having

The UN has condemned the killing of a Ugandan aid worker in South Sudan. UN’s Humanitarian Coordinator in the country Alain Noudéhou said the killing of the female aid worker

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Nigeria’s Minister of Transportation, Hon. Rotimi Amaechi, has made a U-turn as the panel of enquiry he set up by to investigate the alleged shortfall in operating surpluses by the

Members of Nigeria’s House of Representatives from the 17 southern states of the federation have unanimously supported resolutions of the Southern Governors’ Forum on the ban on open grazing, demand

The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has confirmed a system collapse of the national electricity grid on Wednesday, leading to a power outage across the country. The TCN however notes that efforts are ongoing

Three Kenyan lawmakers have been summoned by the speaker of parliament after they made allegations that legislators received 100,000 Kenyan shillings ($930) as a bribe to pass a controversial bill that could significantly