Africa

Kenyan sprinter Ferdinand Omanyala has exuded confidence that he can shatter Usain Bolt's 100m world record of 9.58 seconds. Bolt,...

South African lightweight Simiso Buthelezi has died after suffering bleeding on the brain following a boxing bout at the weekend...

Kenya should make more of its clothes locally instead of importing items "worn by dead people", says a frontrunner in...

Dozens of women in the Nigerian town of Owo have been marching to voice their outrage at the killing of...

A Liberian footballer, Mohammed Agogo Barry, has allegedly murdered his girlfriend after the lady broke up with him. According to...

Kenya's electoral commission (IEBC) has revoked the clearance of comedian Walter Mong’are, famous by his stage name Nyambane, to run...

Two brothers from the wealthy Gupta family have been arrested in the United Arab Emirates, the South African and Emirati...

Members of Nigeria's ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) are electing a presidential candidate in the capital, Abuja. Whoever emerges from...

Six Chadian opposition leaders, including the co-ordinator for the main opposition coalition Wakit Tamma, have been handed one-year suspended sentences...

Tanzania's government is reversing its controversial decision to lift a ban on wildlife exports. The order to roll back the...