Isaac Kaledzi

China and the African Union dismissed on Monday a report in French newspaper Le Monde that Beijing had bugged the regional bloc’s headquarters in the Ethiopian capital.

Gennady Golovkin will face Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez in a world middleweight title rematch on 5 May. The first fight in Las Vegas ended in a controversial draw in September, with a location for the second bout yet to be confirmed.

An eight-month-old baby girl has been raped allegedly by her cousin in the Indian capital, Delhi. The girl is reportedly in a critical condition at a local hospital where she was brought in on Sunday.

Nigeria’s air force killed at least 35 people in attacks on villages in the northeastern state of Adamawa in December, Amnesty International said in a report on Tuesday.

The President of Liberia George Weah on Monday announced a slash in his salary by 25 percent to help fix a country he described as “broke”.

Hundreds of supporters from the Kenyan opposition coalition Nasa have gathered at the Uhuru Park in Nairobi for the swearing in of their leader Raila Odinga as the “Peoples’ President”.

Turkish air strikes have seriously damaged an ancient temple in Syria's Kurdish-held Afrin region, the Syrian government and a monitoring group say.

Egyptian politician Mousa Mostafa Mousa said on Monday he would compete in presidential elections, hours before a nomination deadline was set to make President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi the sole candidate after withdrawals and a boycott call.

A South Sudanese rebel group said on Monday it had released 15 army soldiers it had been holding to The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), in line with a ceasefire agreed by the government and rebel groups last month.

Officials in Ghana have announced that they have been forced to begin rationing water for citizens following a drop in water production.