President Mahammadu Buhari Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari is holding emergency meetings Monday with security chiefs after several foreign missions issued terror warnings last week for the capital, Abuja. Buhar’s spokesperson, Garba Shehu, made the announcement in a tweet late Sunday. He ... Read More

Burkina Faso's new leader Captain Ibrahim Traore arrives for a ceremony to honor soldiers killed in an earlier ambush in Gaskinde, in Ouagadougou on Oct. 8, 2022. Suspected jihadists have ambushed and killed 13 soldiers in Burkina Faso's eastern province, ... Read More

Brazil has taken a turn to the left as former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva beat far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in the presidential election. After a divisive campaign which saw two bitter rivals on opposite sides of the political spectrum ... Read More

Ghana will on Tuesday, November 01, assume the Presidency of the United Nations (UN) Security Council, a historic moment in the country’s two-year tenure at the Security Council. The significance of Ghana presiding over the Council’s affairs for the month of ... Read More

A new Zulu king has been crowned at a historic event attended by thousands in South Africa's coastal city of Durban. King Misuzulu is the ninth Zulu monarch King Misuzulu ka Zwelithini was formally acknowledged as monarch by President Cyril Ramaphosa, who ... Read More

Ethiopia’s Tigray region has run out of medical supplies such as vaccines, antibiotics and insulin, World Health Organization officials say, warning that many deaths are probably going unrecorded from preventable and treatable diseases. Only about 9 percent of health facilities in ... Read More

Mrs Pelosi is one of the most powerful politicians in the US Paul Pelosi, the husband of US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, is recovering from surgery after being attacked by a hammer-wielding intruder at the couple's San Francisco home. Mr ... Read More

Armed guards are seen positioned at a shopping center’s entrance in the Sandton area of Johannesburg, South Africa, Oct. 27, 2022. The U.S. Embassy in South Africa has issued a rare warning of a possible terror attack this coming weekend in ... Read More

Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis has urged the South African government to deny entry to a Russian billionaire's megayacht, warning that allowing it to dock in the country could lead to sanctions. Steel and mining tycoon Alexei Mordashov is close to ... Read More

Elon Must The world's richest man, Elon Musk, has completed his $44bn (£38.1bn) takeover of Twitter, according to US media and an investor in the firm. He tweeted "the bird is freed," in an apparent reference to the deal closing. A number of ... Read More