

South Africa’s embattled President Jacob Zuma has resigned his office with immediate effect.. The BBC reports that Zuma made the announcement in a televised address to...
The official portrait of former American President Barack Obama painted by a Nigerian, Kehinde Wiley, was unveiled on Monday at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. Not...
Since hanging up his boots in 2015, we’ve not heard much from El-Hadji Diouf …until now that George Weah is the new president of Liberia. And if you’re...
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Johnson-Sirleaf became president in 2006, three years after the second civil war had ended, and was re-elected for a second term in...
UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth, Jayathma Wickramanayake, has condemned the practice of female genital mutilation, saying it was not acceptable in the 21st century. Wickramanayake spoke...
Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, is critically ill in a South African hospital and his supporters should “brace for the worst”, a party source with...


President Jacob Zuma, along with two former French leaders, has been implicated by a former arms dealer in hush payments made pertaining to South Africa’s weapons...
Raghad, the eldest daughter of former Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein, has been declared wanted by the country’s security services. She is on the “most wanted list”...
President Muhammadu Buhari has signed an executive order prohibiting issuance of visas to foreign workers whose skills are readily available in Nigeria. The executive order, signed...
The eldest son of Fidel Castro, the late Cuban revolutionary leader, has taken his own life, according to state media. Fidel Ángel Castro Díaz-Balart, a nuclear scientist known...