President Bola Tinubu has told Nigerians that the worst is behind them and that the country is getting better, in a speech to mark the end of his second...

Khanyisile NgcoboBBC News, JohannesburgGallo Images via Getty ImagesA video clip of a laughing Joshlin Smith, who was six years old when she went missing more than a year ago...

War-torn Sudan is now "on the brink" of a public health disaster as cholera and other deadly diseases spread, aid group, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) has warned.In just...

Mansur AbubakarBBC News, AbujaAFP via Getty ImagesIn Nigerian politics, there has long been an informal understanding: presidential appointments should carefully balance the country's many ethnic and religious differences. Today,...

Nick EricssonBBC Africa EyeBBCFour years on from her husband's brutal killing, Ngabi Dora Tue continues to struggle with the falloutNgabi Dora Tue, consumed by grief, was barely able to...

A Nigerian senator has told the BBC she only learnt that the government was suing her "on the news" and that she was "shocked" by the action taken against...

Nick EricssonBBC World ServiceReutersPresident Trump doubled down on his unfounded claims of a white genocide in a remarkable meeting with President RamaphosaSouth Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa and his delegation...

Pumza FihlaniBBC News, NormandeinBBCThe murder of Roland Collyer's aunt and uncle in 2020 led to the creation of the temporary crucifix memorial featured in President Donald Trump's video on...

Watch: 'Turn the lights down' - how the Trump-Ramaphosa meeting took an unexpected turnThree months into Donald Trump's second term, foreign leaders should be aware that a coveted trip...

A former prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been sentenced to a decade's forced labour for corruption.Augustin Matata Ponyo was found guilty of embezzling about $245m...

Tanzania's main opposition leader Tundu Lissu has appeared in court for the first time since his arrest on treason charges last month, telling his supporters not to fear.He raised...

Leading Kenyan lawyer and the country's former Justice Minister Martha Karua says she has been deported from Tanzania to prevent her from attending the court case of opposition leader...