The Guardian Africa
Adeola Fayehun’s ambush of ageing Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has catapulted the queen of Nigerian satire, already a star in many countries in Africa, into the international spotlight.
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BBC Africa
South Africa's sports minister says the decision to donate $10m (£6.5m) to Fifa to develop Caribbean football was approved by then President Thabo Mbeki.
Francisco Baiocchi Africa
At least 31 people have been killed in an explosion at a busy market in the northeastern Nigerian city of Yola, an emergency official has said.
The blast happened at about 7:40pm on Thursday at the Jimeta Main Market in the Adamawa state capital, just as traders were finishing business for the evening.
"So far, we have 31 dead victims and 38 people in hospital receiving treatment" as a result of the blast, said Sa'ad Bello, Yola's National Emergency Management Agency coordinator.
"Some whose injuries were not severe were discharged," he told the AFP news agency.
In recent years, Yola has come to be seen as a relative safe haven for hundreds of thousands of people forced to flee their homes because of ongoing violence in the country.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility but fingers will likely be pointed at Boko Haram, which has carried out several attacks in the north of the state in recent weeks.
More than 60 people have bee
Francisco Baiocchi Africa
Leon Lotz was once a member of the Koevoet – “crowbar” in Afrikaans – a paramilitary police unit created by South Africa’s apartheid regime to root out guerrillas in what is now Namibia. Thirty years later, something persuaded him to take up arms again in a foreign country. He was killed in March, apparently by friendly fire from a tank in northern Nigeria. Among the most striking facts about Lotz was his age: 59.
A wealth of media reports, witness accounts and photos on social media suggest that he is not the only white mercenary who helped tur
Quartz Africa
Jacob Zuma has three tough days ahead of him as he tries to persuade Africa’s biggest gathering of investors that they should invest their money in his country.
Al Jazeera Africa
A bomb blast at a busy market in Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri has killed about 50 people, according to witnesses and hospital sources.
CNN.com Africa
Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) Six top executives in Nigeria's Central Bank are facing charges following the alleged theft of the equivalent of more than $40 million.
AFP Africa
South Africa has rolled out tough new visa regulations requiring children travelling into the country to carry unabridged birth certificates, a move that industry experts predict will badly damage the tourism sector.
Leadership Africa
Two out of the three suspected child rapists who were alleged to have raped a six-year-old girl at primary school in Benin are currently being held at the Aidenyan Police Station.
CNN Africa
(CNN)Sixty-nine people have been killed and 35 people injured after a fuel tanker crashed into a busy bus stop in Southeast Nigeria.
BBC Africa
Nigeria's anti-corruption agency has arrested six senior central bank officials over an alleged $33m (£21m) currency fraud.
BBC Africa
More than 60 people have died in south-eastern Nigeria after a fuel tanker crashed into a busy bus station and caught fire, officials say.
AFP Africa
Boko Haram Islamists raided two towns in northeastern Nigeria, torching public buildings and looting food and fuel stores, residents and a police officer told AFP on Sunday.
BBC Africa
East African leaders have urged Burundi's president to postpone elections due in June.
Vanguard Nigeria Africa
Nnewi—No fewer than 69 persons were burnt to death last night as a petrol-laden tanker, descending from Army Barracks side of Onitsha-Enugu Expressway, lost control, rammed into the Asaba Motor Park at Upper Iweka, Onitsha, and exploded.
Vanguard Nigeria Africa
An Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) planted by suspected members of dreaded Boko Haram insurgents on Sunday exploded at the popular Gamboru Market in Maiduguri metropolis leaving four people critically injured.
Goal Africa
A March 2008 letter signed by then Safa president Molefi Oliphant could be the smoking gun in the alleged bribery of Fifa.
Vanguard Africa
Apparently, President, Muhammadu Buhari has inherited what can best be described as a troubled economy with 70 percent of the population in poverty, over 15million housing units deficit, epileptic power sector, depreciating local currency, which is at the exchange rate of over N200 to a Dollar, a real sector that is in comatose, environment of insecurity and inefficient transport system among other challenges.