Ethiopia's Bodi or Me'en people, bigger is always better. The tribe, which lives in a remote corner of Ethiopia's Omo Valley,...

Masvinu once again walked away with the title of the ugliest man in Harare on Friday night at the City Sports Bar, allafrica.com reports. ...

Liberian ex-warlord Charles Taylor was on Tuesday transferred under tight security from The Hague to a British prison where the convicted...

President, Goodluck Jonathan, has joined other African leaders to urge the International Criminal Court (ICC)  not to prosecute sitting h...

The leader of the Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force, NDPVF, Muhajid Asari-Dokubo has joined the swelling rank of private university pr...

Notorious warlord/former president of Liberia Charles Taylor who was convicted of war crimes , is to serve out his 50-year sentence in a ...

Libyan PM Ali Zeidan has called for "calm and "wisdom" after being freed from the custody of militiamen. He was abducted...

Mandla Mandela, the grandson of Nelson Mandela, is facing charges of assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm (GBH), as well as p...

One of the three Nigerians accused of kidnapping a child is protected by security forces, shortly before being lynched by a mob which mana...

Previous Africa-rich-lists named as few as 16 billionaires, but Ventures magazine has said its exhaustive research had identified at leas...

A hate preacher wanted for recruiting killers to the group that massacred civilians at a mall in Nairobi warned yesterday that Britain wa...

I just stumbled on this very disturbing video of Angolan policemen mercilessly beating two women with whips, sticks, cutlasses and punche...

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has suggested castration of child rapists to curb the scourge, which he described as a rampant problem...

Evans Kidero, the Governor of Nairobi, had just finished meeting with President, Goodluck Jonathan who signed several bilateral agreeme...

Anti-apartheid leader and former South African President Nelson Mandela was discharged from hospital and returned home on Sunday after bei...

This is the horrifying moment an armoured police vehicle was pushed off a bridge by protestors in Cairo today.   The van plunged off th...

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's party has won a huge majority in parliament in this week's elections, officials say. Robert ...

The Emir of Kano Alhaji Dr Ado Abdullahi Bayero is attended by aides as he sits on the back of his vintage Rolls Royce on his way to the ...

BRITISH actor Idris Elba stars as Nelson Mandela in the first full length trailer for the biopic Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. Idris, ...

The third novel of Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, titled AMERICANAH , has been awarded the 2013 Chicago Tribune Heartland Pri...