Africa

In a modest auto body shop in Lagos, 39-year-old Kehinde Sanni spends his days fixing dented cars — and praising a man he has never met from a country he has never visited: Captain…

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has condemned Moroccan authorities for deporting two Italian freelancers who attempted to report from Western Sahara, urging an end to the…

A Ugandan court has sentenced an 18-year-old man to 10 years in prison for sexually assaulting a three-year-old girl during a church service in April 2025. The assault took place when the…

A 14-year-old girl was killed by a lion on Sunday evening after the animal entered a residential compound on the outskirts of Nairobi and dragged her away. The Kenya Wildlife Service…

A 28-year-old Kenyan woman, Jane Njeri Muigai, has been arrested for allegedly attempting to smuggle 294 grams of cocaine concealed in her body. The Directorate of Criminal…

Gambia’s Supreme Court has commuted the death sentence of a former government minister convicted of murdering the country’s finance minister, replacing it with life imprisonment. The…

Two Belgian teenagers have been charged with wildlife trafficking in Kenya after authorities found them in possession of 5,000 live ants packed in test tubes at a guest house in Nakuru…

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed former deputy finance minister Mcebisi Jonas as a special envoy to the United States, in a strategic move aimed at mending and…

Gabon’s transitional leader and former coup chief, Brice Oligui Nguema, has officially won the country’s presidential election by a wide margin, securing around 90 percent of the vote,…

A massive fire broke out at Sierra Leone’s State House in Freetown on Saturday afternoon, engulfing the upper floors of the historic presidential building and triggering a swift…