Category: Africa

A court in Ibadan, south-west Nigeria, has ordered the government to pay the sum of about $48m (£35m) in aggravated damages to a Yoruba separatist

US President Joe Biden has signed an executive order to allow targeted sanctions to be imposed against individuals and groups perpetrating violence and impeding humanitarian

Eritrean refugees were raped, detained and killed by forces in northern Ethiopia, according to a report by the NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW). The abuses

* Over Ethiopia dam row The United Nations has urged Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan to resume talks to resolve the dispute over the Nile dam

Libyan forces loyal to the eastern-based commander, General Khalifa Haftar, have been clashing in the south of the country with rebels from neighbouring Chad. Gen

*Over Guinea Story: Rueben SACKEY President Nana Addo Dankwa  Akufo-Addo has called on member states of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to

A Rwandan opposition leader has gone on hunger strike after being arrested by police, his lawyer says. Christopher Kayumba, the leader of the Rwandese Platform

By: Henry Nana Boakye As a young child, I was not spared with the trauma and fearsomeness associated with the related consequences and excesses of

Former Ivory Coast prime minister Charles Konan Banny died in a Paris hospital on Friday after contracting Covid-19, close aides said. Banny, 78, who was