Hichem Mechichi, who until now has served as Tunisia's interior minister, has been appointed to form the next government, the president's office said Saturday. The 46-year-old lawyer succeeds Elyes Fakhfakh, who resigned earlier this month -- but Mechichi was not one of the names proposed by the ruling political parties to President Kais Saied.

As one of the leaders in Europe, Angola intends to take advantage of Italian technological innovation on renewable energies to promote in the country, Hélder Cardoso, vice president of the Angola-Italy Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said Friday in Luanda.

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a man, Amosu Funso, over the death of his girlfriend, Precious Udochi, in Ogombo, Ajah area of the state.

A Tunisian man has pieced together bits of a local secret linked to ancient emperors: how to make a prized purple dye using the guts of a sea snail. "At the beginning, I didn't know where to start," said Mohamed Ghassen Nouira, who heads a consulting firm.

Officially, he stepped down in January 2019, retiring after 18 years at the helm of the biggest country in sub-Saharan Africa.

A team of six vets in southern Ethiopia has successfully removed 50kg of plastic from a cow following three hours of surgery.

Some 75 government soldiers arrested in Yei, a town in South Sudan's Central Equatoria state, are being tried by military judges in the capital Juba for alleged human rights abuses.

A 70-year-old Nigerian man will spend the next three decades in prison after he was sentenced to serve 30 years jail term for defiling an 8-year-old girl.

The singer says as long as her partner is cheating with several ladies, she is okay with it. Nigerian singer, Seyi Shay says she won't mind settling down with a cheating partner.