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Rights group Amnesty International has accused Nigeria's army of ignoring warnings about the abduction of over 100 school girls in the country’s Yobe state.

A former President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy is facing questioning over allegations that he received campaign funding from the late Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi.

The United States of America is to set up a military base in Ghana with the government of West African nation reported to have approved an agreement to that effect.

The ruling party in Zimbabwe Zanu PF has warned that its former leader Robert Mugabe could soon lose his immunity and privileges as a former head of state.

Africa's leaders will gather in Rwanda on Wednesday, March 21 to launch what they say will be the world's largest free trade area but leaders of Nigeria and Uganda are reported to have pulled out, highlighting the challenge in getting the continent to sign up.

A judge ordered a provincial government in South Africa to pay $15 million in damages to families of at least 144 psychiatric patients who he said died of negligence after being moved to unregistered facilities in early 2016.

The Ministry of Health in Uganda has said that it is investigating some companies over the supply of Hepatitis B vaccines to private health facilities, believed to be "fake".

The President of Zimbabwe Emmerson Mnangagwa has said that about $591 million in stolen public funds have been returned by Zimbabweans.

Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza on Sunday set May 17 as the date for a referendum that could extend his rule for at least a decade.

Egyptians living abroad have voted in their country's presidential elections expected to take place locally between March 26 and 28.