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THE Governor of Nigeria’s Kaduna state has signed a law saying men convicted of rape will face surgical castration. Anyone…
RIGHTS watchdog Amnesty International has called for an independent probe into the killing of a naked pregnant woman by men…
THE head of Guinea-Bissau’s migration agency has been arrested for suspected involvement in cocaine trafficking, the police said, becoming one…
AFRICA’S first-ever Factbook, a colossal 1,200-page tome, based on the time-tested philosophy that ‘until the story of the hunt is…
TWO eminent Yoruba Kings, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III, the Alaafin of Oyo and Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi Ojaja II,…
PROTESTERS have gathered outside several pharmacy chain stores in South Africa in reaction to a shampoo advertisement slammed by the…
MOZAMBIQUE has banned the importation of cultured fish from neighbouring Malawi following the outbreak of a lethal disease in fish…
ELIZABETH Borowo was a young woman when British colonialists forced her and her family from their farmland nearly 70 years…
ZIMBABWE has made it illegal for schools to expel pupils who get pregnant, a measure women’s rights campaigners said would…
THE African Leadership Centre, an initiative of King’s College London and the University of Nairobi, aims to train 10 doctoral…
THE port of Senegal’s capital Dakar on Thursday said it had requested the removal of around 2,700 tonnes of highly…
DOCTORS in most public hospitals in Kenya’s capital went on strike on Friday to protest against delayed salaries and a…
THE international community has strongly condemned the death threats against Congolese Nobel Peace Prize winner Denis Mukwege. Mukwege, 65, has…
HAFSA was married off at 13 by her father to a man who paid $100. She and her mother say…
NIGERIAN troops have arrested three foreign nationals as part of the country’s arms smuggling crackdown, an official said late Monday.…
A COURT in Luanda sentenced the son of former Angolan president Eduardo Dos Santos to five years in prison over…
MAURITIUS is seeking compensation from the owners of the cargo carrier that ran aground and spilt oil off its coast,…
A YOUNG musician in northern Nigeria’s Kano state has been sentenced to death by hanging for blasphemy against Prophet Muhammad.…
KENYAN female freedom fighter Mekatilili wa Menza, who led the coastal Giriama people to resist British colonial rule in the…
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