International

Akinwumi Adesina, president of the African Development Bank (AfDB), says billionaire businessman, Aliko Dangote, may become the largest exporter of rice in the world...

Zimbabwe's former leader Robert Mugabe has been in hospital in Singapore for four months, his successor President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said. Mr Mnangagwa said the...

Facebook has begun a roll-out of Place Tips - a system allowing businesses to send updates to a person's smartphone when they are nearby. Keen...

Four Kenyan schoolboys are in police custody over the burning of a dormitory after reportedly being denied permission to watch the match between Liverpool...

An Indian vegetable seller allegedly killed himself on Thursday after receiving an electric bill of nearly $13,000 (£9570) in the western state of Maharashtra. Jagannath...

An office for Nigeria's election commission has been burned down just six days before the country is due to vote in a general election. The...

Lesotho's 80-year-old Prime Minister Thomas Thabane has told AFP news agency that he "intends to resign on Wednesday because of old age". He is accused...

Togo's opposition is defying a government ban on weekday protests by planning a second day of protests today.Four people were shot dead - one...

Six soldiers from Niger's army were killed in an ambush by Boko Haram militants, the country's interior ministry said. The attack happened near the town...

The US Navy has demoted the commander of 10 US sailors who in January entered Iranian territorial waters and were briefly detained. In a statement,...