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Ghana has granted emergency authorisation for the use of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19. Russia’s RDIF sovereign wealth fund made the confirmation on...

The head of the Chadian Organisation of Human Rights, Baradine Berdei Targuio has been jailed for saying the country's President, Idriss Déby is ill. Targuio...

Tanzania's President John Magufuli has called for three days of prayer and fasting to defeat Covid-19. Magufuli last year declared that Covid-19 was satanic and...

The Vice President of Zimbabwe has been placed in an embarrassing situation after he was caught on a leaked tape arranging an office sex...

Countries in West Africa have been placed on high alert to quell an outbreak of Ebola.It follows a warning from the World Health Organization...

Several students are reported missing in the north-central Nigerian town of Kagara in Niger state after gunmen stormed a boys boarding secondary school.The incident which happened...

A Nigerian businessman has been jailed 10 years in the United States for running a cyber fraud scheme. A US court sentenced Obinwanna Okeke, also...

South Africa's Education Minister has come under fire for her remarks that "an educated man won't rape" while trying to explain the importance of...

Two people have been arrested by the Ugandan Police for flogging an effigy of President Yoweri Museveni.The two men, Luta Ferdinand Male and Nsereko...

The World Trade Organization (WTO) on Monday announced officially the appointment of former Nigeria's finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as its new director-general.Ngozi will take...