International

Nigeria's Information Minister Lai Mohammed has said the country would "in a few more days" lift the ban on social media platform Twitter. He, however, did not give a specific date when pressed, Reuters news...

Ghana's Foreign Affairs Minister, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, has revealed that ECOWAS tried on several occasions to stop Guinea's deposed President Alpha Conde from usurping that country's constitution to seek a third term. Addressing journalists at...

Some 240 prisoners have escaped after unidentified gunmen attacked a facility in Nigeria's Kogi state, officials say. It is the second mass jailbreak this year in Nigeria, which is struggling with multiple security crises. The attackers...

A BBC Panorama investigation has found evidence that suggests one of Britain's biggest companies paid a bribe to the former Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe. Documents show British American Tobacco (BAT) was involved in negotiations to...

Afghan universities will be segregated by gender, and a new Islamic dress code will be introduced, the Taliban has said. Higher Education Minister Abdul Baqi Haqqani indicated women would be allowed to study, but not...

Military leaders who've seized power in Guinea have released about 80 prisoners ahead of a summit of the West African grouping Ecowas. The leaders of the Ecowas bloc are due to meet virtually on Wednesday...

Ugandan police accuse two opposition MPs of masterminding a wave of recent killings in the central region of greater Masaka. Allan Ssewanyana and Muhammad Ssegirinya of the National Unity Platform (NUP) have been charged with...

Security analyst and Head of the Department of Research at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) Prof. Kwesi Aning says Sunday's coup d'etat in Guinea did not come as a surprise. According to...

The third son of the former Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, has been released from jail in the capital Tripoli, where he had been held since 2014. Sa'adi Gaddafi was commander of Libya's Special Forces but...

South Africa's jailed former President Jacob Zuma has been granted medical parole. The 79-year-old is serving a 15-month sentence for contempt of court at Estcourt Correctional Centre. The nature of his illness was not specified, but...