Africa Archive

The death toll from Wednesday’s landslide in north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is expected to rise above 400, officials say. Most of the dead are from a fishing community on Lake Albert. Officials say the figure is based on the number

Two persons were burnt beyond recognition at Kikam in the Ellembelle district of the Western region in a motor crash which resulted in a gas explosion Wednesday evening. According to an eyewitness, Egya Eti, a mini urban bus and a taxi

The President of Zambia, Edgar Lungu has announced that testing for HIV is now compulsory in that country. According to Mr. Lungu, testing, counselling and treatment for HIV which used to be voluntary, are now a must for every citizen as

Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga says he will mount a legal challenge to the result of last week’s presidential election, which he claims was rigged. Mr Odinga, who was defeated by incumbent Uhuru Kenyatta, has accused the electoral authorities of fraud

Three female suicide bombers have carried out an attack that has killed at least 27 people in north-eastern Nigeria, officials say. Dozens were injured when the women blew themselves up outside a refugee camp near Maiduguri in Borno state – a

At least 600 people are still missing following a mudslide and flooding that devastated parts of Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, a spokesman for the president has told the BBC. President Ernest Bai Koroma earlier pleaded for “urgent support”, saying entire communities

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity (Office of the Vice-President), Mr. Laolu Akande, has recently disclosed that the federal government of Nigeria has spent N6.2 billion under the National Homegrown School Feeding Programme. The Buhari administration

Whose business is it to send people to mecca who will return to be revered and call honorable? Is it a constitutional dictate to send people to Mecca? Has our Mps so called honorable men and women ever bothered to subject