Eighteen of the 24 candidates in the election have accused the minister minister of territorial administration and decentralisation of being responsible for an "electoral robbery."
The trend of carrying out kidnapping for ransom as a profession has been on a rise in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a resource-rich country which is suffering from one of the most complicated humanitarian crises in the world.
Acting leader Yemi Osinbajo sacks head of the state security agency Lawal Musa Daura hours after masked security agents barred lawmakers from entering the parliament in capital Abuja.
Twenty years ago two bomb blasts killed more than 250 people and wounded thousands more at two US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya. Those attacks heralded the arrival of Al Qaeda on the global stage.
The World Health Organization says vaccinations could begin as early as Wednesday in Democratic Republic of Congo since the Zaire strain of the deadly virus has been confirmed.
Africa's second-largest country is in a state of crisis, brought on by decades of conflict, plundering and Ebola outbreaks. With elections expected in December, can the DRC's media hold up under mounting pressure on what they say and about whom?
Niger's minister for humanitarian action says floods have killed at least 22 people, destroyed more than 3,000 homes and nearly 4,000 hectares of crops.
Tendai Biti, a former finance minister and newly elected member of parliament for the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, is wanted in Zimbabwe for allegedly inciting violence after urging opposition supporters to defend their votes.
Zimbabwean police took former finance minister and opposition leader Tendai Biti into custody on Thursday after Zambian authorities rejected his bid for asylum and deported him, his lawyers said.
Inauguration of Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa, which was due on Sunday, has been halted after the country's main opposition leader, Nelson Chamisa, filed a court challenge against the last month's vote results.
The probe was launched after a video circulating on social media shows security forces shooting at least a dozen unarmed people in the far north of the country.
Polls have opened in the run-off presidential election of the West African nation of Mali with voters having to decide between incumbent Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and challenger Soumaila Cisse.
Counting is under way in some of the 23,000 polling stations across the West African nation to determine if incumbent Ibrahim Boubacar Keita will remain in office who is challenged by Soumaila Cisse.
In his first public address since winning disputed elections, Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa called on the troubled country to unite and "put the election period behind us and embrace the future."
The death of about 40 people in Ethiopia’s Oromia over the weekend is being blamed on the Liyu Police, a regional paramilitary force from the Somali region.
Global rights groups seek investigation into the killings of at least 900 protesters in 2013 by security forces in Cairo's Rabaa al Adawiya square, where demonstrators had rallied against the ouster of democratically-elected president Mohamed Morsi.
It's been five years since the Rabaa Square massacre in which more than 800 people, who were demanding the return of deposed president, Mohamed Morsi, were killed. One of those arrested for reporting on the massacre is photojournalist Shawkan.
