Local and international pressure is piling on the Ugandan government to release popular musician and legislator, Robert Kyagulanyi commonly known as Bobi Wine who has been detained by the country’s...

Kenya’s main opposition leader, Raila Odinga may contest in the country’s 2022 presidential election. According to a senior member of his party, Senator James Orengo, Odinga, who was at the center...

Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney to American President, Donald Trump on Tuesday pleaded guilty in a Manhattan federal court to eight criminal counts. In his plea, Cohen admitted that he acted...

Amid a deepening row between the United States and Turkey, several gunshots were on Monday morning reportedly fired from a vehicle at the US embassy in the Turkish capital, Ankara. Turkish Police authorities...

Former United Nations Secretary General, Kofi Annan has died. He passed on Saturday at the age of 80 after a brief illness in Switzerland. According to his foundation and family, he died in a hospital...

  Incumbent Malian President, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has been re-elected for a five-year term after winning 67.17 percent of the vote in the country’s presidential runoff election held on Sunday. According...

South Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa has stepped up efforts to crackdown on corruption in the country. The country’s Justice Minister, Michael Masutha on Tuesday revealed that the government...

Tunisian President, Beji Caid Essebsi on Monday announced his support for a bill that will ensure that men and women have equal rights to inheritance. The draft inheritance equality bill has sparked controversy...

The Counter-Terrorism Command of the London Metropolitan Police is leading an investigation into an incident that saw a car collide with barriers outside the Houses of Parliament on Tuesday morning. According...

More than 300 people were reportedly injured on Sunday night after a wooden pier collapsed during a music festival in Spain. Five people were left seriously hurt after the 30- metre-high wooden platform...

Mali’s presidential candidate, Soumalia Cissé on Sunday said his staff had intercepted ballots in Bamako and Gao which he claimed was evidence of electoral fraud in the run-off poll. Speaking in Niafunke...

  A Chinese tourist taking photographs has reportedly died while another was injured after they were attacked by a hippopotamus at Lake Naivasha Sopa Resort in Naivasha, Kenya. According to the Kenya...

The inauguration of Zimbabwe’s newly-elected president, Emmerson Mnangagwa has been put on hold as the main opposition party in the country has officially challenged the July 30 presidential election. Barely...

Two police officers have been confirmed to be among four people killed in Friday’s shooting in Fredericton, New Brunswick in eastern Canada. The Police in Fredericton say they would not immediately...

The United States government has proposed a sixth military branch for the country’s armed forces as the White House has outlined plans to prepare for the next battlefield by creating a new ‘Space...

Mali’s Constitutional Court on Thursday rejected the appeal filed by some opposition parties in the country challenging the results of the July 29 presidential election which was marred by violence...

The United States president, Donald Trump has slapped down a bid by the European Union to shield European businesses from the impact of the new US sanctions against Iran. On Tuesday, Trump tweeted that...

President Alassane Ouattara of Cote d’Ivoire has declared amnesty for Simone Gbagbo, wife of the country’s former leader who was convicted of offences against the state during a brief civil war 2011. In...

Health officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have said they will begin administering an experimental vaccine following a new Ebola outbreak in the country last week. The drug was previously...

Less than a week after an earthquake killed 16 persons in Lombok, Indonesia, another 7.0 magnitude earthquake  on Sunday rattled the same popular tourist island located near Bali, killing at least 91...