Tag: Africa

Lawmakers in Nigeria's Kaduna State have approved surgical castration as punishment for those convicted of raping children under the age ...

A court in Belgium has ruled that a tooth taken from the corpse of Congolese independence hero Patrice Lumumba should ...

Nigeria's Imo State University has set up a committee to investigate sex-for-grades claims after videos of lecturers allegedly having sex ...

A nurse has shockingly told a customary court where she is seeking a divorce that, her husband forced her to ...

Wading through waist-deep water, residents of the al-Shigla neighbourhood in Omdurman, twin city of Sudan's capital Khartoum, tried to rescue ...

South Africa's economy has shrunk by 51% in the second quarter of 2020. From March, the continent's most industrialised economy ...

The UN children's agency, Unicef, says some 535,000 children in Burkina Faso are suffering from acute malnutrition. Unicef says many ...

A man has blown up part of his house in France while trying to swat a fly. The man, who ...

Mali's overthrown President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has left the country seeking medical treatment in the United Arab Emirates, officials have ...

Niger's national human rights commission has accused the army of executing dozens of civilians during counterinsurgency operations. It said it ...