Lamine Diack, the ex-head of athletics' governing body, has been jailed after being found guilty of corruption.
The Senegalese, 87, faced corruption and money-laundering charges...
The U.S. Treasury on Tuesday announced that sanctions have been imposed on Zineb Jammeh, the wife of Gambia’s former president, Yahya Jammeh.
In a statement...
A filmmaker has been arrested for allegedly recording a pornographic movie at the Osun Osogbo scared grove in western Nigeria, police say.
The sacred forest,...
Police in Ghana have launched an investigation into the mysterious death of one of the country's top law lecturers.
The University of Ghana senior law...
The Kaduna state in north-western Nigeria is allowing for full surgical castration of convicted rapists as punishment for their crime.
The state assembly approved the...
