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Lagos, Nigeria — The Nigerian Air Force has revised the death toll from Monday’s military aircraft crash in Ondo State to 25, correcting an earlier figure of 32 people believed to have been aboard the
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RABAT, Morocco — Amnesty International has accused Morocco’s domestic intelligence service of operating an extensive surveillance system targeting journalists, human-rights defenders, activists and other government critics. In a report published on October 1, the rights
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FORT PORTAL, Uganda — Uganda's Tooro Kingdom has enthroned former television news anchor Edward Rukidi Kijanangoma as its new king, bringing a contested succession process to a ceremonial conclusion following the death of King Oyo
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DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania — Tanzania has removed Nigerian nationals from its referred-visa category, eliminating an additional immigration clearance requirement that had made travel to the East African country more complicated for Nigerian visitors. The
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — South African authorities are investigating a disturbing series of killings after the bodies of at least nine women were discovered across the Ekurhuleni area east of Johannesburg over roughly two months,
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CAIRO, Egypt — Egypt has paid compensation to the family of poet and activist Shaimaa Al-Sabbagh, who was shot dead by police in Cairo in 2015 while taking part in a march to commemorate protesters
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MINNA, Nigeria — Protests erupted in Niger State after at least 33 people detained during raids on suspected illegal gold-mining sites were found dead while in the custody of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence
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A child’s toy is usually associated with play, imagination and safety. But in South Africa, a growing counterfeit-toy market is forcing families, businesses and regulators to confront a darker reality: products that look harmless may
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DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania — Tanzania is mourning the death of Hafidh Ameir Hassan, the husband of President Samia Suluhu Hassan, who died on Monday while receiving treatment for a heart condition in Zanzibar. Vice
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SHARPEVILLE, South Africa — More than six decades after apartheid police opened fire on an unarmed crowd in one of the defining moments of South Africa’s anti-apartheid struggle, survivors and relatives of those killed are
