China’s top diplomat began his annual New Year tour of Africa on Wednesday, focusing on strategic trade access across eastern and southern Africa as Beijing seeks to secure key shipping ​routes and resource supply lines. Foreign Minister Wang Yi will travel to Ethiopia, Africa's fastest-growing lar»»»

The Trump administration is nearly tripling the number of countries whose passport holders will be required to post bonds of up to $15,000 to apply to enter the United States. Less than a week after adding seven countries to the list of nations subject to visa bonds, bringing the total to 13, the S»»»

Rabat: A thunderous strike by substitute Adil Boulbina deep in extra time settled a tense encounter as Algeria beat the Democratic Republic of Congo 1-0 in their Africa Cup of Nations last-16 tie on Tuesday. The game at the Moulay El Hassan Stadium in Rabat was edging towards a penalty shoot-out wh»»»

The military operation that removed Nicolas Maduro is not an aberration. It is the clearest expression yet of the foreign policy Donald Trump intends to project across the Americas and potentially the wider world - blunt, transactional and unconstrained by international norms based on law and order»»»

The military operation that removed Nicolas Maduro is not an aberration. It is the clearest expression yet of the foreign policy Donald Trump intends to project across the Americas and potentially the wider world - blunt, transactional and unconstrained by international norms based on law and order»»»

The military operation that removed Nicolas Maduro is not an aberration. It is the clearest expression yet of the foreign policy Donald Trump intends to project across the Americas and potentially the wider world - blunt, transactional and unconstrained by international norms based on law and order»»»

The military operation that removed Nicolas Maduro is not an aberration. It is the clearest expression yet of the foreign policy Donald Trump intends to project across the Americas and potentially the wider world - blunt, transactional and unconstrained by international norms based on law and order»»»

The US military action in Venezuela was the right thing to do "morally", Kemi Badenoch has said. The Conservative leader told the BBC that while she did not understand the legal basis for Donald Trump's operation to remove President Nicolás Maduro from the country, he was overseeing a "brutal regim»»»

Rabat: Nigeria qualified for the quarter-finals of the 35th edition of the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), held in Morocco, after their easy 4-0 victory over Mozambique on Monday in the round of 16. This is the biggest score in the round of 16, and Nigeria will await the winner of the match between »»»

In tonight's edition, Nigeria warns its communities near sites of US military airstrikes to watch out for unexploded ordnance. Also, The Pharaohs rise to the occasion in AFCON beating Benin in the opening game of the knockout phase in Marrakech. And hundreds of thousands of rural Tunisian»»»

Flutterwave, Africa’s largest privately held fintech company, has acquired Nigerian open-banking startup Mono in an all-stock transaction valued at between $25mn and $40mn, strengthening the group’s push into bank-based payments, data and identity infrastructure. »»»

Flutterwave, Africa’s largest privately held fintech company, has acquired Nigerian open-banking startup Mono in an all-stock transaction valued at between $25mn and $40mn, strengthening the group’s push into bank-based payments, data and identity infrastructure. »»»

President of Nigeria Bola Ahmed Tinubu ordered a hunt for the assailants who killed more than 40 people in an attack on a Niger State village over the weekend. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo Jan. 5 (UPI) -- President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of Nigeria has ordered police and military to »»»

Armed men have violently stormed a village in Nigeria's Niger state, killing at least 30 people and looting shops, state authorities have said. The attackers emerged from a forest near the village of Kasuwan-Daji on Saturday and set fire to the local market, looted shops and kidnapped an unspecifie»»»

Lagos: Nigeria's drug enforcement agency Sunday said it had arrested 22 Indian crew members of a merchant ship after 31.5 kilogrammes of cocaine was found on the vessel at Lagos's main port. The seizure was made on January 2 aboard MV Aruna Hulya which "originated from Marshall Islands," Femi Babaf»»»

Abuja: At least 30 people were killed, and others abducted in an attack carried out by gunmen on a market in Niger State, central Nigeria. Police said in a statement carried by local media on Sunday that armed assailants stormed a market in the village of Demo, set stalls ablaze, and looted food su»»»

London: Former world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua has posted on social media for the first time since a fatal car crash in Nigeria that killed two of his close friends. The 36-year-old British fighter was a passenger in a Lexus SUV that collided with a stationary truck on a busy highway link»»»

Nigerian officials have announced that schools in Niger state will start reopening later this month, following a mass abduction in November that forced their closure as part of emergency security measures. From 12 January, public and private schools "in safe and secure areas" will be allowed to reo»»»

At least seven explosions rocked Venezuela's capital Caracas in the early hours of January 3, with the government of President Nicolás Maduro accusing the United States of carrying out a "very serious military aggression" and declaring a state of emergency across the nation. »»»

At least seven explosions rocked Venezuela's capital Caracas in the early hours of January 3, with the government of President Nicolás Maduro accusing the United States of carrying out a "very serious military aggression" and declaring a state of emergency across the nation. »»»

After launching a night of shock and awe in Venezuela, Donald Trump now appears to be getting into the nation-building business. In a remarkable press conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort on Saturday morning, the president announced that US forces had successfully captured Venezuelan President Nicol»»»

Rabat: Hugo Broos is hoping to lead South Africa to Cup of Nations glory in Morocco but standing in his team's way in the last 16 on Sunday are Cameroon, the country with whom he won an unlikely continental title in 2017. The showdown at the compact Al Medina Stadium in Rabat has the makings of a f»»»

In tonight's edition: Nigerian police detain the driver of the vehicle involved in the Lagos highway smash in which two people were killed and boxer Anthony Joshua was injured. Also, supporters of Guinea's former junta chief-turned-president-elect celebrate his win of the weekend's election. P»»»

The driver for British boxer Anthony Joshua, who was injured, and two others who were killed in a Monday collision in Nigera was charged on Friday and is jailed until posting bond. File Photo by Rune Hellestad/UPI | License Photo Jan. 2 (UPI) -- The driver of the vehicle that crashed in Nigeria, in»»»

Anthony Joshua's driver has been charged after a crash in Nigeria injured the boxer and killed two of his team members, police have said. Adeniyi Mobolaji Kayode, 46, was charged at the Sagamu Magistrate Court on Friday. Police sources told the BBC the charges included causing death by dangerous dr»»»

‎The Tripoli based Libyan government reported yesterday that, in implementation of the Prime Minister’s instructions on strengthening investment partnerships with foreign investors, it held a meeting with several foreign investors. A3M Group consortium, investors from Gulf countries and the United »»»

Lagos, Nigeria: Former world heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua has been discharged from hospital, state officials said Wednesday, after surviving a car accident in Nigeria that killed two of his close friends. Joshua was travelling on Monday with friends Sina Ghami and Latif Ayodele on a b»»»

Lagos: Former world heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua has been discharged from hospital, state officials said Wednesday, after surviving a car accident in Nigeria that killed two of his close friends. Joshua was travelling on Monday with friends Sina Ghami and Latif Ayodele on a busy highw»»»

British heavyweight boxer Anthony Joshua has been discharged from hospital in Nigeria days after a fatal car accident that killed two of his close friends. The former world champion was deemed fit to recuperate at home, the Ogun and Lagos states said in a joint statement, describing him as "heavy h»»»

Mali and Burkina Faso say they will bar US citizens from entering their countries in response to a similar move by the Trump administration. The two West African states were recently placed under full entry restrictions under US President Donald Trump's expanded travel ban. In separate statements, »»»