Wedaeli Chibelushi

More must be done to make Gabonese football safer, players’ union Fifpro has said after a former youth coach convicted of sexually abusing players was handed a life ban by world football’s governing body, Fifa. On Tuesday Fifa ruled that […]

The UK’s decision to suspend some aid to Rwanda is “punitive”, authorities in the East African country have said. In a statement, the UK said it was against Rwanda’s support for the M23, a rebel group that has captured swathes

Wedaeli Chibelushi BBC News Getty Images Tutsis have long been advocating for better treatment in DR Congo The notorious M23 rebel group is wreaking havoc in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, seizing the region’s two biggest cities in a deadly

At least 71 people have died in southern Ethiopia after a lorry plunged into a river, officials say. The vehicle, which was travelling through Sidama state on Sunday, fell into the river after it missed a bridge, a local official

A convoy carrying food aid has arrived in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, for the first time since civil war erupted in April 2023. The country is currently experiencing the “world’s worst hunger crisis”, according to the United Nations, as a result

Two men have been arrested in Zambia accused of being “witchdoctors” who had been tasked with trying to bewitch the president. The police said they had arrested Jasten Mabulesse Candunde and Leonard Phiri in the capital, Lusaka. “Their purported mission

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has sentenced the former head of the Islamic police in Mali’s historic city of Timbuktu to 10 years in prison for war crimes. Prosecutors said al-Hassan ag Abdoul Aziz ag Mohamed ag Mahmoud led a

Getty Images John Mahama is not only a seasoned politician, but a prolific writer too John Dramani Mahama has been Ghana’s president once before – and now he is back for another punt at the top job. The 65-year-old led

AFP Mahamudu Bawumia soared from being a political outsider to become Ghana’s second-in-command – and in December he could make history as the country’s first Muslim president. Bawumia, currently Ghana’s vice-president, was chosen by the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP)

Civil servants caught having sex in their offices will face “severe measures”, the vice-president of Equatorial Guinea has warned after hundreds of allegedly pornographic videos were leaked to the public. The videos reportedly involve high-ranking civil servant Baltasar Ebang Engonga