18 July 2018 marks Nelson Mandela’s 100th year. Why is he still so revered across the world yet a controversial figure in his home country of […]

French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday night made the audience at Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s Afrika Shrine laugh, when he joked that ‘What happens in the shrine […]

A continent-wide campaign co-led by the African Union Commission and the RBM Partnership to End Malaria, and supported by African leaders, has been launched. The campaign […]

A South African woman is recovering in hospital after being discovered alive in a mortuary fridge. The woman was taken to Carletonville morgue, in Gauteng province, […]

 The 2018 Careers in Africa Employer of Choice Survey has ranked the African Development Bank the fourth best company to work with in Africa. Of 100 […]

Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said he suspects a group linked to the former first lady was behind an attempt on his life. Two people died […]

A man who claims to have slaughtered more than 1,000 cats and sold the meat to the business people since 2012 has been jailed for three years. […]

A Catholic priest in Kenya has been suspended from leading public mass for a year because he rapped during sermons, report says.  Bishop Philip Anyolo, of […]

The Africa Regional Certification Commission (ARCC) has called on African Countries to implement environmental surveillance in line with existing collection schedule. The ARCC made the call […]

Malaria alone costs Africa 1.3% of its GDP and most of the children under five years of age who die every day because of malaria are […]

The Chairperson , African Regional Certification Commission ,ARCC  ,Professor Rose Leke has called for high level advocacy ,and adequate resources to achieve a polio free status […]

As the world celebrates  Blood Donor Day, the Regional Director ,World Health Organization, WHO African Region, Dr Matshidiso Moeti,has called on African Health Ministries  has urged […]

The Norwegian Refugee Council’s  says  African countries top the Norwegian Refugee Council’s annual list of neglected displacement crises for a third year in a row. In […]

Top officials working for Kenya’s government must undergo a lie detector test as part of a corruption crackdown, President Uhuru Kenyatta has said. Mr Kenyatta said […]

The UNHCR,  UN Refugee Agency, has moved some 331 Cameroonian refugees from Abande to Anyake, Kwande Local Government Area (LGA) settlement, in a move intended to help […]

The African Development Bank, AfDB  under the leadership of its President, Akinwumi Adesina, has increased disbursements to support the structural transformation of countries in Africa, according to […]

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) is deploying 25 epidemiologists, laboratory experts, and anthropologists to support the government of the Democratic Republic […]

 Miss Inas Khalid Maikano has been identified as the prime suspect in the murder of a Nigerian diplomat in Sudan, Mr Habibu Almu, the Federal Government […]

Officials said 17 people have died in an area of northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo where health officials have now confirmed an outbreak of Ebola. It […]

An illegal diamond mine has been discovered operating underneath a prison in the Democratic Republic of Congo, reports London’s Metro newspaper. Prisoners in Osio, northern DR […]