Africa

A Reverend Father identified as Richard Bilé, serving at the parish of Saint Francis of  Assisi Affiénou (Maferé), Cote d’ivoire, committed suicide over a case of pedophilia. He had been

Sudan’s new authorities must investigate the role of the country’s former spy chief, General Kamal Abdelmarouf Salih Ghosh, the head of Sudan’s feared National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) in

Algeria’s caretaker government faces the prospect of persistent popular demands for the removal of an scletoric ruling elite and wholesale reforms after ailing 82-year-old President Abdelaziz Bouteflika quit in the

Algeria’s state news agency APS said late on Tuesday that the embattled president Abdelaziz Bouteflika sent his resignation to the Constitutional Council. The ailing, 82-year-old leader stood down shortly after the army

DR Congo’s new President Felix Tshisekedi fell ill briefly as he was delivering his inauguration speech on Thursday following the country’s first peaceful handover of power. Tshisekedi, 55, returned to

A Ghanaian undercover journalist who helped expose corruption in African football has been killed in the capital Accra, police said Thursday. Ahmed Hussein-Suale was part of a team led by

The Islamic State group has claimed to have killed 118 people in its self-styled West Africa province in the last week, after a series of attacks against military bases in

 Ghanaian Authorities are set to repatriate no fewer than 30 Nigerians for alleged infractions against the laws of the state. Reports indicate that the deportation may occur next week as

President Muhammadu Buhari and President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana Thursday met in New York, on the sidelines of the ongoing United Nations General Assembly, during which the Nigerian leader expressed