Gunmen have killed dozens of people and wounded many others in a series of attacks on several villages in Nigeria’s north-western state of Sokoto, according to police and residents.

Thirty migrants are reported to have been killed in western Libya in revenge for the murder of a man involved in human trafficking.

Armed men on motorcycles killed 27 civilians in central Mali in three attacks on ethnic Dogon farming villages in less than 24 hours, local officials said on Thursday.

A 95-year-old World War Two veteran, Pte Joseph Hammond from Ghana, has sent a video message to fellow Burma veteran Capt Tom Moore, asking him to send a message to other veterans in Africa.

Former Black Stars defender Samuel Osei Kuffour has narrated the events that led to his sack from the camp of the Black Stars during the 2002 Africa Cup of Nations in Mali.

Eighty athletes will benefit from the COVID-19 funds that were released by the Ministry of Sports to cushion sportsmen and women during the pandemic.

Police in Morocco say they have detained a well-known actor for making what they call blasphemous comments on Islam.

At least 588 wild animals, including lions and giraffes, were killed by motorists in 2019 as they crossed roads within the Lake Manyara and Tarangire National Parks ecosystem in northern Tanzania, a statement has said.