A university student has been killed and another seriously injured by stray bullets as gunmen shot dead two men in a parked car on a busy street near the centre of the South African city of Johannesburg, police say.
A UK auction house has cancelled the sale of a shield looted from Ethiopia by British soldiers in the 19th Century. The move came after a complaint from the Ethiopian government..
The artefact was taken during the battle of Magdala in 1868 from what was then known as Abyssinia.
An opposition leader in Chad has been killed during a shootout with security forces, a state prosecutor says.
Yaya Dillo’s death comes after the government blamed him for a deadly attack on the country’s security agency. He denied the accusation.
When Ali Hassan Mwinyi became Tanzania’s president in 1985, few expected the shy, unassuming politician, who died on Thursday aged…
Universal Music Group (UMG), one of the world’s biggest music corporations, is set to aquire a majority stake in a leading African label.
Police in Zambia have arrested two male university students on suspicion of having sex with each other. The pair were subjected to invasive medical checks afterwards on police orders.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni discussed with Kenya’s William Ruto about Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga’s candidacy for the top African…
A prayer to God to provide a husband for Charlene Ruto, the daughter of Kenya’s president, has sparked a flurry of online reactions in the country.
“We have now reinstated the sports fund to deal with only matters [of] sports,” says Kenya’s President William Ruto, adding…
Kenya has exempted passport holders from South Africa and six other countries from paying an unpopular entry fee introduced last month.
The government scrapped visa requirements for all foreign passport holders last month.
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