A court in Belgium has ruled that a tooth taken from the corpse of Congolese independence hero Patrice Lumumba should be returned to his family, Belgian media are reporting.

Orlando Police say Sylvester Ofori, the Ghanaian who shot his wife outside her job at the Navy Federal Credit Union at Millenia Tuesday morning surrendered peacefully to the police without resisting any arrest.

Guinea's constitutional court, the highest in the West African country, has approved 82-year-old President Alpha Condé's bid for a third term in next month's election.

Renowned South African human rights lawyer George Bizos has died. He was 92 years old.

Nobel Peace Prize winner, Denis Mukwege, has been placed under the security of United Nations forces in Democratic Republic Congo after death threats against him.

Nigeria aims to have 50 mines in operation by 2023 and can make up for time lost because of the impact of COVID-19 on development of the nascent sector, the country’s mining minister said in an interview.

High levels of annual floodwater on the Nile River have threatened to engulf important archaeological sites north of Sudan's capital, Khartoum.

Some ECOWAS leaders have criticized the decision of some colleagues to run for third terms.

Rwanda genocide suspect Charles Ndereyehe was on Tuesday evening arrested by police at his house near Dutch capital's, Amsterdam, his political party has said.