A judicial panel probing runaway graft on Monday asked South Africa's top court to jail ex-president Jacob Zuma for two years for defying a court order compelling him to testify.

A small Nigerian air force passenger plane crashed just outside Abuja airport after reporting engine failure on Sunday, killing all seven people on board, the air force said.

A jihadist attack in northeast Nigeria has forced many people to flee after Islamic state-affiliated insurgents overran a key army base, military sources and residents told AFP Sunday.

Nigeria’s economy unexpectedly came out of a recession in the fourth quarter as growth in agriculture and telecommunications offset a sharp drop in oil production.

Gunmen in military uniforms raided the Government Science College in Kagara, Niger state early on Wednesday, killing one student and taking others away.

Retired Lt.Gen.Tukur Buratai, former Chief of Army Staff says military action alone can’t tackle security challenges in the country.

There was a rescue campaign on Twitter, but the women taken from a Nigerian school were saved by their strength and diplomacy

Kenya was scheduled to pay 27 billion shillings ($245 million) to China from January through June. The announcement of delayed payment came a week after the Paris Club of creditors agreed to delay $300 million in payments by the government of East Africa’s biggest economy.

The three-year deal is aimed at supporting the country’s response to the coronavirus pandemic

Kenya will raise its debt ceiling of Sh9 trillion to accommodate gaps in its expenditure needs amid underperforming tax collections, the National Treasury has said, confirming reports that emerged from corridors of Parliament early January.

Kenya’s deep waters are currently being exploited by foreign industrial fishing vessels due to challenges facing local artisanal fishermen.

The decision by the British Parliament to delay the ratification of a new trade deal between Kenya and the UK is a wake-up call to negotiators to seek consensus among all parties likely to be affected by the pact.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, has debunked the trending report that the Republic of Benin was aspiring to be the 37 State of Nigeria.

The United States (U.S.) Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has disclosed that terrorists, Islamic fundamentalists and bandits killed 8,279 Nigerians in 2020.

Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was appointed Monday as the first female and first African head of the beleaguered World Trade Organisation (WTO), saying a stronger WTO would be vital for the global coronavirus recovery.

Former South African President Jacob Zuma did not comply with a court order to appear before the panel probing corruption.

Nigerian police beat and arrested demonstrators on Saturday as a small group protested over the reopening of the site where activists denouncing police brutality were shot last year in the commercial capital, Lagos, Reuters witnesses said

During the operations, Farouk Yahaya, commander of Operation said, one soldier was killed and four others wounded in an incident involving improvised explosive devices planted by Boko Haram militants.

The aftermath of a conflict at Shasha Market in Ibadan, South West Nigeria, following a disagreement between a Yoruba man and a Northern Hausa resident.

Kenya will host the Dubai Week in Africa 2021 this week as the country looks to build trade relations with the UAE.