A government spokesman has confirmed that former South African and anti-apartheid propagator President Nelson Mandela,94, left the hospital on Wednesday, where is being treated...
The Super Eagles will on Thursday, Dec. 27 depart for Faro in Portugal via Accra, Ghana for the final phase of their preparation for...
Dearest Compatriots, 1. I greet and felicitate with you all as we join the rest of the world in celebrating the birth...
Two people have been arrested in South Africa for "borrowing" a corpse as part of an elaborate life insurance scam, police have said....
Armed pirates have attacked a ship off the coast of Nigeria, kidnapping four crew members before releasing the vessel, the International Maritime Bureau...
China plans to change the law to crackdown on "malicious" trademark registrations, state media said on Monday, after a series of cases in...
Barely 24 hours after two suicide bombers hit facilities belonging to Airtel and MTN in Kano, another explosion Sunday night rocked a location...
Twenty-two hostages seized by pirates nearly three years ago have been freed, the authorities in Somalia's semi-autonomous region of Puntland say. ...
Egypt's main opposition has demanded an inquiry into the referendum on the draft constitution, citing fraud. The National Salvation...
Peter Odemwingie has reacted angrily to being omitted from Nigeria's Africa Cup of Nations squad. The West Bromwich Albion...
The Islamist group Ansaru has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of a French engineer in Nigeria, French media report. ...
The 15-nation U.N. Security Council on Thursday unanimously authorized the deployment of an African-led military force to help defeat al Qaeda and other...
UN Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), has pledged to support the fight against food and acute malnutrition crisis in seven Sahel states in northern...
The Rugby Football Union is trialling a "ref-cam" during the televised Championship game between Newcastle Falcons and London Scottish on Sunday. ...
Facebook's photo-sharing service Instagram has moved to deny that it has changed its privacy policy to give it the right to sell users'...
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani is to be transferred to Germany for treatment for a stroke that may end his moderating influence in a...
The daughter of a former military ruler won South Korea's presidential election on Wednesday and will become the country's first female leader, saying...
