Africa

A Congolese military court has sentenced a high-ranking policeman to death for his role in the 2010 murder of human...

Violence has broken out at a tertiary college in the northern Nigerian city of Sokoto after a female Christian student...

Three men in Malawi have been each sentenced by a High Court to 155 years in jail for killing a...

Three Senegalese midwives involved in the death of a woman in labour have been found guilty of not assisting someone...

Former Rwandan official Laurent Bucyibaruta has gone on trial in France for his alleged role in the 1994 genocide where...

Former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has rejected a presidential nomination form, saying it was bought without his consent. The form...

DR Congo international Jody Lukoki, who began his senior career at Dutch giants Ajax, has died at the age of...

Prosecutors in Egypt have ordered the detention of 13 teenage boys arrested on suspicion of harassing two female foreign tourists...

A Muslim cleric in Kenya has asked a court not to free him from jail despite being acquitted of terrorism...

Rwandan President Paul Kagame has suspended his minister for youth and culture, the authorities have said. Edouard Bamporiki's suspension was...