International

In Uganda, only 9.8% of students pursuing a career as an advocate passed examinations for the 2019/2020 academic year, leading calls to abolish the bar course. Although 1474 students took the exam, just 145 passed. 1329 students, or 90.2%, were unsuccessful. This...

Tensions are running high on the streets of Conakry these days, as motorbike taxi drivers and police officers engage in a cat-and-mouse game. Two-wheeled taxis are required for anybody wishing to bypass the severe traffic jams in the West African...

For the Khoi and San - South Africa's early occupants - a green strip of land near Cape Town represents triumph and sorrow. The two tribes pushed back cattle-raiding Portuguese troops there in 1510. But, a century and a half...

Two lecturers at Nigeria's University of Lagos (UNILAG) have been fired after an inquiry into allegations of sex-for-grades following a BBC Africa Eye documentary. Both Boniface Igbeneghu and Samuel Oladipo were dismissed from their positions by the university's governing board...

President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria has warned that his administration would not tolerate any activity that promotes criminality or unrest in the country. He was reacting to a growing wave of attacks, particularly on government facilities, in the country's south-eastern...

The African Union (AU) has decided to ban Mali once again amidst a second military coup in nine months. The AU's decision comes barely days after Mali was suspended from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). The AU said...

The people of Senegal have denounced the acquisition of a new airplane for President Macky Sall as 'wasteful.' Finance and Budget Minister Abdoulaye Daouda Diallo, succumbing to criticism, informed parliament last week that the Airbus A320 neo will cost taxpayers...

Gunmen assaulted and injured Uganda's former army chief, murdering his daughter and driver in an assassination attempt. On Tuesday, four assailants on motorbikes opened fire on a vehicle carrying General Katumba Wamala, the minister of works and transport, in the...

Married Chinese couples may have up to three children, China announced on Monday, in a major shift from the existing limit of two after recent data showed a dramatic decline in births in the world's most populous country. Beijing scrapped...

The Chad government on Monday accused the Central African Republic (CAR) of killing six of its soldiers in an attack on an outpost in the south of the country. “The Central African armed forces attacked the outpost of Sourou in...