Category : Africa News

Fire gutted the Nigerian Army Headquarters complex in Abuja on Tuesday. The Nigerian Army Director of Public Relations, Brigadier General Mohammed Yerimah, confirmed this in...

Nigeria has received nearly four million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, shipped via the COVAX Facility, a partnership between CEPI, Gavi, UNICEF and WHO. The PUNCH learnt...

In the Central African nation of Chad, political developments ahead of upcoming polls have triggered the blocking of internet connectivity since late last month. Internet...

As the Democratic Republic of Congo awaits formal admission into the regional bloc, purveyors of false news have been spreading misinformation in the country. Since...

Four media workers in Ethiopia’s conflict-wracked Tigray region have been arrested and detained, their families and employers said. Tigray has been at the centre of...

Fighters believed to be from the notorious Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) have killed at least 10 civilians in two overnight attacks in the eastern Democratic...

Unable to utter a word through her tears, Pauline* looks away from her one-and-a-half-month-old son breastfeeding in her arms. It is just a matter of...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) says it has gathered evidence of a revenge attack nearly a year ago by Cameroonian soldiers on a village where they...

Unidentified gunmen have kidnapped 317 schoolgirls in the northwest Nigerian state of Zamfara, police said in a statement on Friday, the second such kidnapping in...

Nine soldiers have been killed in an attack near the central Malian town of Bandiagara, in an area where armed groups are rampant, a military...