On Wednesday (Mar. 27), a French court handed former Liberian rebel commander Kunti Kamara a 30-year prison sentence for violence against civilians and complicity in crimes against humanity. The crimes were found to have happened between 1993 and 1994 during the First Liberian Civil War in Lofa county, in north-western Liberia. During the pro...

 South Sudan's government on Tuesday (Mar. 26) said schools will reopen from April 2nd following a two-week closure due to extreme heat across the country. The health and education ministries said temperatures were expected to steadily drop with the rainy season set to begin in the coming days. During the heat wave last week, the country regis...

 A Nafar, also known as a town crier, is a seasonal profession that emerges annually during Ramadan.The Nafar works for one month and stops their work once Eid al-Fitr is declared. The Nafar is a man who walks the paths and alleys in the early hours of the morning, starting at three am. The Nafar plays a certain tune with a long trumpet-like i...

 An explosion at a small hotel near a police station in north-eastern Kenya killed four people on Monday (Mar. 25). The blast took place in the town of Mandera, which is on the border with Somalia. The town's police chief Samwel Mutunga said that two of those wounded were in critical condition and would be flown to the capital, other were admi...

 Nollywood comic actor Amaechi Muonagor has passed away at the age of 62, a family member confirmed this to local media. Reports indicate that he succumbed to kidney failure on Sunday while undergoing dialysis, as disclosed by local media. Confirming his demise the actor's cousin Tony Muonagor, also recognized as Tony Oneweek, shared the sorro...

 Nearly 300 kidnapped Nigerian schoolchildren have been released, local officials said Sunday, more than two weeks after the children were seized from their school in the northwestern state of Kaduna and marched into the forests. At least 1,400 students have been kidnapped from Nigerian schools since 2014, when Boko Haram militants kidnapped h...

 The Speaker of South Africa's parliament on Friday sought to stop police from arresting her on corruption charges. Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula filed an application in the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria seeking an order against her detention by law enforcement, local media reported on Friday. She argues that her arrest would hurt the integrity of ...

Doctors at Kenya's public hospitals have entered the seventh day of a nationwide strike, accusing the government of failing to implement a raft of promises from a collective bargaining agreement signed in 2017 after a 100-day strike that saw people dying from lack of care. The Kenya Medical Practitioners Pharmacists and Dentists Union said they wen...

 At Dandora dumpsite, waste stretches in all directions. This is where much of the garbage collected in Nairobi ends up. But one man's trash is another man's treasure. This place is a way for many people to earn a living. Every morning, they flock to the dumpsite to sift through the garbage for anything worth selling. Some collect plastics whi...

 India will prosecute 35 Somali pirates arrested during an operation to free a hijacked vessel off Somalia on Saturday, a navy official said. The men are due to arrive in India on Saturday where they will be handed over to law enforcement. India was previously only concentrating on freeing hijacked vessels and abandoning the disarmed pirates a...

 Пентагон работает с властями Нигерии, чтобы найти способ сохранить американские войска в стране - ключевой базе для контртеррористических операций в Африке к югу от Сахары - после того, как в выходные была издана директива, предписывающая им покинуть страну. На прошлой неделе делегация высокопоставленных официальных лиц США, в том числе помощ...

 Alexis Preller's self-portrait is the first painting visitors see as they enter this exhibition. The South African artist's masterpiece is one of almost 100 artworks on show at Sotheby's auction house in London. It will be part of a sale of modern and contemporary African art taking place later this month. But before the works go under the ha...

 The British government hopes one last push can revive its stalled plan to send some asylum-seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda. A bill aimed at overcoming a U.K. Supreme Court block on deportation flights returns to the House of Commons on Monday and could be passed into law within days. That would be a boost for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, w...

 South Sudan's government is closing down all schools starting Monday as the country prepares for a wave of extreme heat expected to last two weeks. The health and education ministries advised parents to keep all children indoors as temperatures are expected to soar to 45 degrees Celsius (113 Fahrenheit), in a statement late Saturday, They war...

 Congo has lifted a more than two-decade-old moratorium on the death penalty as authorities struggle to curb violence and militant attacks in the country, according to a justice ministry statement released on Friday. The statement, dated earlier this week, said the ban from 2003 allowed offenders accused of treason and espionage to get away wi...

 Security forces in Somalia say they have killed all five attackers who laid siege to a hotel in a normally secure area of the capital. Police spokesperson Kasim Roble said Friday that three soldiers were killed and 27 people injured in the Thursday night attack on the SYL Hotel in Mogadishu. The Somali extremist group al-Shabab said on Telegr...

 Supporters of Senegal's top opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, took to the streets of Dakar early Friday following his release from jail late Thursday, ahead of the presidential election later this month. Sonko is widely seen as the main challenger to President Macky Sall's ruling party. He was greeted outside the prison by crowds of supporters...

 Eight children and an adult died after eating sea turtle meat on Pemba Island in the Zanzibar archipelago and 78 other people were hospitalized, authorities said Saturday. Sea turtle meat is considered a delicacy by Zanzibar's people even though it periodically results in deaths from chelonitoxism, a type of food poisoning. The adult who died...

 Three Egyptian Coptic monks have been tragically killed in what's described as a "criminal assault" within a monastery in South Africa, according to the Christian Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt. The incident is under investigation by South African authorities as a triple murder. The church spokesman stated on Facebook, "Three monks were subj...

 Suspected Islamist insurgents kidnapped 50 people, mostly women, in northeastern Nigeria this week, local officials and a resident said on Wednesday, the latest mass abduction by fighters who have waged an insurgency for more than a decade. Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) fighters have mainly operated in Borno state ...