The Central Bank of Kenya is reinstating charges on mobile money transactions, after they were put on hold to cushion Kenyans from the economic ravages of Covid-19.

The crackdown by the Directorate of Citizenship and Immigration Control (DCIC) on foreign artistes and journalists without work permits could have far-reaching implications to the entertainment industry and international conferences in Uganda.

Some gunmen were said to have invaded Gora Gan community in the Zango-Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna State and killed seven locals among them a 70-year-old man and a six-year-old girl.

Exhausted and disheveled, several hundred Nigerian schoolboys were reunited with their parents on Friday — experiencing their first full day of freedom after being seized nearly a week ago in a mass abduction claimed by Boko Haram.

Most public universities have postponed their graduation ceremonies due to COVID-19 that has destabilised school calendars.

Coronavirus testing centres in South Africa are filling up as the country that has the most cases on the continent went into a second wave of the pandemic this month.

While dealing with the recent turmoil in Asante Kotoko following the dismissal of Maxwell Konadu and the resignation of P.J. Mozee, the club has suffered another blow as their 1983 AFCON winning chairman Assad Maalah passes on.

Former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday evening arrived in the Gambian capital Banjul as part of a mission to mediate a dispute over a constitutional review process.

The US government has fulfilled its November pledge of providing 65,000 tonnes of wheat to the Republic of Sudan.