FBI has confirmed that President Bola Tinubu once featured in its drug-related investigation in the US in the 1990s. You should read the details of the confirmation.
Gunfire and explosions erupted in Niamey as soldiers struck key sites, seized the airport, and clashed with guards before security forces regained control.
Eritrean authorities have called on their armed forces to mobilise in response to the renewed fighting in northern Ethiopia, the British and Canadian governments said. "Local authorities have issued a general call for mobilization of armed forces in response to the conflict in northern Ethiopia," the Canadian government said.
As thousands of revellers grooved to the sounds of Uganda's sold-out Nyege Nyege music festival on the banks of the Nile, relieved organisers said an attempted "immorality" ban had only served to boost sales.
As twilight nestles behind the mountains in Nongoma town, the birthplace of South Africa's ethnic Zulu group, thousands of young women bathe in a cold, shallow river. The 47-year-old new head of South Africa's largest ethnic group is also known by his official title as MisuZulu kaZwelithini.
Eight Namibian cheetahs arrived in India Saturday, decades after their local extinction, in an ambitious project to reintroduce the spotted big cats that has divided experts on its prospects. Cheetahs became extinct in India primarily because of habitat loss and hunting for their distinctive spotted coats.
Queen Elizabeth II smiling at children waving Kenyan flags and the Union Jack, alighting from the "Royal Train" or shaking hands with a curious little boy -- are all previously unseen images from an enormous archive taken by celebrated photojournalist Mohamed Amin.
Springbok fly-half Elton Jantjies, who early this week was sent home from Argentina ahead of a Rugby Championship match, said on Friday that "I let myself...down" but denied having an affair with the squad's dietician. The Springboks are due to play Argentina on September 17 in the Rugby Championship.
Eight Namibian cheetahs were on Friday airlifted to India, part of an ambitious project to reintroduce the big cats after they were driven to extinction there decades ago, officials and vets said. Negotiations are ongoing for similar translocation from South Africa, a government official told AFP on Friday, with vets suggesting 12 cats could be moved.
A leading Chadian rebel flew home on Friday to join talks on the country's political future, after spending nearly two years in jail in Egypt, an AFP reporter saw. There have been no other details about his release, which had been a condition set by the UFR for joining a forum on charting the military-run country's return to civilian rule.
The West African state of Guinea on Friday announced that the long-awaited trial over a 2009 massacre will begin on September 28, 13 years to the day after an event that marked a turning point in its history. On 28 September 2009, a group of NGOs and opposition parties organised a rally at a stadium in the capital Conakry.
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