Isaac Kaledzi

Liberians will have to choose between former football star George Weah and Vice-President Joseph Boakai who becomes their next president after both candidates failed to secure over 50 percent of votes in last week’s presidential elections.

The President of Ivory Coast, Alassane Dramane Ouattara is visiting Ghana on Monday for a state visit weeks after his country lost a maritime dispute between the two countries.

Somalia is mourning the death of hundreds of people in Saturday’s deadly bomb blast in the country’s capital, Mogadishu.

Human rights group, Amnesty International on Friday said that over 500 people from Cameroon’s Anglophone regions have been arrested by the government for protesting.

Three people have been shot dead by security officials in Kenya after opposition supporters defied a directive not to hold street protests.

South Africa’s top court of appeal has ruled to reinstate the several charges of corruption filed against Jacob Zuma before becoming President of the country.

Police in Kenya on Friday clashed opposition party supporters who have defied a government ban on political protests.

Thirty years ago, the leader of Burkina Faso's revolution, Thomas Sankara, was cut down in a hail of bullets — a bloody end to a turbulent yet charismatic life that today has gained cult status in Africa.

US and UK police have launched investigations into sexual assault allegations against the film producer Harvey Weinstein.

Samsung Electronics chief executive Kwon Oh-hyun has resigned citing an "unprecedented crisis".