Category: Africa

Source: Africanews The Islamic police have arrested 19 people accused of organizing a gay wedding in the city of Kano, in conservative northern Nigeria, a

Source: BBC A Sudanese woman charged with adultery has had her life spared and will instead spend six months behind bars after she admitted to

Source: BBC Burkina Faso’s interim leader, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, has announced that he was the target of a coup attempt last week. In a meeting

* As body lies in state Hundreds of people have queued to pay their respects to Archbishop Desmond Tutu, as his body lies in state

Protesters have been calling for the president to resign over insecurity Burkina Faso’s President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré has admitted to problems that “must be

Motorbike gunmen kill 21 in fr The authorities are being criticised for failing to tackle the violence Gunmen in the north-western Nigerian state of Sokoto

Source: BBC At least 25 children aged five to six have died after their straw-hut classrooms caught fire in southern Niger, officials say. Several others

President Muhammadu Buhari has launched the country’s digital currency, eNaira. The event was held on Monday at the State House in Abuja, with the Vice

Sudan’s top general declared a state of emergency, dissolved the authorities leading country’s democratic transition, and announced the formation of a new government after soldiers