Tag: bbc

The family of celebrated BBC journalist Sophie Ikenye has appealed for financial assistance to raise KSh 5 million for her […]

Zimbabwe’s parliament has voted to abolish the death penalty, as the BBC’s Shingai Nyoka reports. The draft act now requires […]

Police in Ghana have arrested more than 100 people – mostly opposition supporters of President-elect John Mahama – over acts […]

Burkina Faso’s military ruler Capt Ibrahim Traoré has sacked his Prime Minister Apollinaire Joachim Kyelem de Tambela and dissolved the […]

Ghana’s Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia has accepted defeat in Saturday’s election and congratulated the opposition candidate, former President John Mahama, on […]

Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, from the governing South West Africa People’s Organisation (Swapo), has been voted in as Namibia’s first female president […]

Chad has said it is terminating a key defence cooperation agreement with France, raising questions about Paris’s waning influence in […]

President Cyril Ramaphosa will on Monday, 2 December 2024, brief the media on South Africa’s Group of Twenty (G20) Presidency. […]

A fugitive Zambian lawmaker with a bounty on his head has been arrested in Zimbabwe, Zambian authorities have said. Emmanuel […]

Kenya’s Catholic Church has rejected a donation of about $40,000 (£32,000) made by President William Ruto. He offered the money […]

Mozambique’s government has banned protests following sustained post-election unrest that has left several people dead and dozens others injured. It […]

The prime minister of Mauritius has accepted that his coalition, L’Alliance Lepep, has suffered a “huge defeat” following Sunday’s parliamentary […]

Civil servants caught having sex in their offices will face “severe measures”, the vice-president of Equatorial Guinea has warned after […]

Zimbabwe’s government has banned “with immediate effect” police officers from using mobile phones while working. The ban is contained in […]

Nigeria’s president has ordered the immediate release of a group of young people accused of treason, after footage of some […]

A lighting strike at a refugee camp in Uganda has killed 13 children and one adult, police say. They say […]

Nigerian MP Alex Ikwechegh has apologised after a video went viral of him slapping and verbally abusing a taxi driver […]

Prominent Kenyan human rights activist Boniface Mwangi has been released without charge after being detained by police on suspicion of […]