Africa

On Saturday, February 18th, Christian Atsu, Ghanaian footballer who played for Turkey's Hatayspor, was found dead underneath the rubble of the apartment building he lived in. 31-year-old Atsu had been...

Equatorial Guinea's Vice President Teodoro Nguema Obiang had two houses and a superyacht seized this week by South African officials. Vice President Obiang lost a lawsuit filed by South African...

Kiernan Jarryd Forbes, the South African rapper popularly known as AKA, was shot and died in the city of Durban, South Africa on Friday, February 10th. AKA was outside Wish,...

Equatorial Guinea appointed a woman as Prime Minister for the first time. Manuela Roka Botey  was announced as Prime Minister by longtime President Teodoro Obiang Nguema on Tuesday, January 31st....

Pope Francis visited the Democratic Republic of Congo after previously postponing a trip meant for July 2022. The Pope arrived in the DRC's capital, Kinshasa, to much celebration and fanfare...

Liberian President George Weah made the announcement that he would be seeking re-election for a second term. Weah, who assumed office in 2018, made the announcement in Liberia's parliament on...

Nigeria opened for operation the first deep seaport in the country in the city of Lagos on Monday, January 23. The Lekki Deep Sea Port which was a China-led project...

South Africa's Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Naledi Pandor, once again reiterated her stance against the United States’ "Countering Malign Russian Activities in Africa" Bill. Pandor’s desire is that...

Video footage of troops throwing the bodies of two dead people onto a pile of burning debris has led to the opening of an investigation by the Southern African Development...