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Officials in Libya have issued arrest warrants for over 200 Libyans and foreigners believed to have been involved in a smuggling syndicate abusing African migrants trying to get to Europe.

A Ugandan Member of Parliament on Wednesday was forced to apologise after he told men to “beat” their wives.

Officials in Senegal have confirmed the death of six people when a Senegalese military helicopter crashed late on Wednesday.

Heavy rains on Thursday morning in Kenya caused havoc as parts of the capital city, Nairobi were flooded disrupting the activities of many city dwellers headed to work.

State prosecutors in Ghana on Wednesday filed fraud charges against the former head of the country's cocoa regulator, Cocobod.

Burundi has been named the least happy country in the latest UN's annual World Happiness Report which ranked 156 countries.

The President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday defended his administration’s response and handling of the abduction of over 100 students from Dapchi in Yobe state.

A handful of South Africans on Wednesday staged a protest on the streets of Johannesburg against what they call "false prophets".

Africa’s only serving female president so far the Mauritius’ President Ameenah Gurib-Fakim has refused to resign after it was announced last week that she would do so once the country marks its 50th independence anniversary celebrations on 12 March.

Health officials in Ghana are alarmed at an emerging trend where pregnant women are taking bleaching pills to change the skin colour of their unborn babies.