Category: Africa

Source: BBC  Dozens of people have died in Nigeria’s northern Niger state after a boat carrying about 100 people sank in a river. The reportedly

Source: BBC  A South African court has halted plans to bury former Zambian President Edgar Lungu at a private ceremony in South Africa just as

Source: Reuters A suspected female suicide bomber killed at least 12 people and injured several others at a fish market on Friday night in Nigeria’s

Source: Reuters Togo has suspended broadcasts of French state-funded international news outlets RFI and France 24 for three months, its communications authority said on Monday,

Source: BBC  Nigeria’s president has pardoned the late activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, 30 years after his execution sparked global outrage. Along with eight other campaigners, Mr

Kenya’s independent police oversight body has launched an investigation into the death of a man who had been detained “for false publication”, police have said.

Source: BBC Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who has died aged 87, was a titan of modern African literature – a storyteller who refused to be bound by

Source: BBC A US-funded flight carrying the first group of 49 white South Africans has landed in Washington where the Trump administration is to grant

Source: BBC A Kenyan member of parliament has been shot dead in the streets of the capital Nairobi by gunmen on a motorcycle in a

Source: BBC  A Rwandan beekeeper living in the US has been arrested over his alleged involvement in the 1994 genocide in his country. Faustin Nsabumukunzi