The President of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni has now signed into law a bill passed by the country’s parliament to remove the age limit of 75 years placed on presidential aspirants in the east African nation.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has classified obsession with video games as a mental disorder in its latest classification of mental health conditions.
Ghanaians who fail to pay their TV licence fees henceforth could face jail term after the country’s Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo set up special courts for dealing with such cases.
Gunmen killed at least 14 churchgoers returning from a midnight service on Monday in Nigeria's Rivers State, a police source told AFP, the latest violence to hit the oil-rich region.
South African officials have said that rescuers have retrieved bodies of a foreign female tourist and a local male guide from the Table Mountain in Cape Town.
Over 700 captives of Boko Haram have escaped from captivity after the Nigerian army claimed series of its operations have weakened the base of the militant group.
Hundreds of people in north-east Central African Republic have fled their villages following fresh violence between armed groups, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Sunday.