Tunisia has scrapped an old law that prevents women from marrying non-Muslims after the government said on Thursday that woman can now marry who ever they want including non-Muslims.
A girl with a bomb strapped to her walked into a mosque in northern Cameroon where it exploded, killing five worshippers in an attack bearing the hallmarks of Islamist militant group Boko Haram, authorities said.
Togo’s parliament is expected to begin work on the country’s constitutional reform bill by Friday amid series of protests across the West African nation calling for an end to the 50-year Gnassingbe dynasty.
Authorities at one of Africa’s top universities, the Makerere University in Uganda have announced their decision to recall degrees awarded to students over the past decade.
The opposition leader in Zimbabwe, Morgan Tsvangirai and his party the MDC have sued the country's President Robert Mugabe for announcing a date for the start of compiling a new voter register ahead of the country's 2018 presidential and parliamentary elections.
A school girl in Ghana on Tuesday staged a hunger strike after the country's schools admission secretariat failed to place her into a senior high school despite obtaining good grades.
