INTERNATIONAL

Nigeria governor of Kaduna State has signed law under which males convicted of raping children under 14 will be surgically castrated and hanged. Under the same law, Kaduna State Penal...

A court in South Africa has sent a pastor to spend 30 years in jail after he was found guilty for rape and sexual assault on young men. Sthembiso Nathaniel...

Lebanese authorities have said at least 78 people have been killed and some 4,000 wounded in a massive explosion at the port in the capital, Beirut. The explosion on Tuesday...

South Africa's ambassador to Denmark and daughter of former president Nelson Mandela, Zindzi Mandela is dead. Daughter to Mandela and struggle stalwart Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Zindzi died on Sunday night. Her...

South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa reinstated tougher restrictions on Sunday as the country enters the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic. Ramaphosa announced that a curfew will be imposed between 9pm...

Madagascan government has announced it has placed its capital Antananarivo under a fresh lockdown following a new spike in coronavirus infections, two months after the restrictions were eased, the presidency...

The president-elect, Lazarus Chakwera will be sworn in today after the Electoral Commission announced him as the winner of a re-run presidential election held on Tuesday. Chakwera polled 2.6 million...

Millions of Euros have been discovered in a safe deposit box belonging to the former first daughter of Angola, Isabel dos Santos at a Bank in Portugal. Ms Isabel dos...

As of Tuesday, the number of pupils across South African province of Gauteng who had contracted Covid-19 was 58, while 188 educators had contracted the virus across schools in the...

Sudan's public prosecutor announced Monday the discovery of a mass grave containing conscripts allegedly killed after trying to flee a military camp in 1998 under ousted president Omar al-Bashir's regime....