Category: Africa

Source: BBC Sixteen students have been killed in a fire at a boarding school in Gilgil, about 120km (77 miles) north-west of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi,

Source: BBC Kenyan President William Ruto has faced a social media backlash after publicly suggesting that Nigerian-accented English was incomprehensible and required a translator.  Addressing Kenyans living

Source: BBC South African opposition politician Julius Malema has been sentenced to five years in prison after being found guilty of the illegal possession of

Source: BBC Benin’s Finance Minister Romuald Wadagni has won the presidency with an overwhelming majority of the vote, provisional results show.  He secured more than

Source: BBC hirty-one civilians held hostage following a Sunday morning church attack in north-west Nigeria have been rescued, the army has said.  Five others were

Source: BBC Government ministers in Senegal have been banned from all non-essential foreign travel following the rise in oil prices resulting from the conflict in

Source: BBC Democracy “kills” and the people of Burkina Faso must “forget” it, the country’s military ruler has said in an interview aired on state

Story: News Desk  The ECOWAS Regional Animal Health Centre (RAHC) has warned that about 157 million goats and 110 million sheep across West Africa, including

Source: BBC  Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of Libya’s former leader Col Muammar Gaddafi, has reportedly been shot dead. The death of the 53-year-old, who was

Source: BBC  Logistical problems have delayed voting in Uganda’s presidential and parliamentary elections in many parts of the country amid an internet shutdown. The BBC