Unidentified gunmen have attacked the rural home of Kenya’s Deputy President William Ruto’s home near the western city of Eldoret, reports say. Local reports said assailants...
More than 40 people have died during an attempt to free people during an ambush by militant Islam group Boko Haram, sources have told the BBC....
Charges have been dropped against a 41-year-old Nigerian man who named his dog after President Muhammadu Buhari. Joachim Iroko, a market trader also known as Joe...
More than half the world’s children who are not being educated are in Nigeria, the country’s government has said. Acknowledging the scale of the problem the...
Two years after Cecil the lion was killed by a trophy-hunter in Zimbabwe, prompting global outrage, his son may have met a similar sad end. Xanda,...
Suspected Boko Haram fighters have been “brutally tortured” by security forces in Cameroon, a rights group says. Amnesty International said in a report that the suspects,...
At least 20 displaced civilians, including women and children, have been killed in a Saudi-led coalition air strike in south Yemen, officials say. The UN Refugee...
A baboon in Zambia has tampered with the cables at a power station in the south of the country leaving 50,000 people without electricity. It caused...
Eight people have died and at least 49 are injured after a wall collapsed at a football stadium in Senegal. It happened at Demba Diop stadium...
A cholera outbreak in war-torn Yemen is thought to have infected 300,000 people in the past 10 weeks, the International Committee of the Red Cross says....
Five teenage pupils from The Gambia who built a robot for a prestigious international competition in the United States will not be able to accompany their...