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A musician in Nigeria’s northern state of Kano has been sentenced to death by hanging for blaspheming against the Prophet Muhammad. An upper Sharia court in the Hausawa Filin Hockey area of the state said Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, 22, was guilty ...

Popular Nigerian televangelist TB Joshua says he is “waiting to hear from God” before resuming church services in the commercial hub of Lagos. The Lagos State government says that services can resume on Sunday, with half their capacity, after being ...

Rescue workers in Lebanon are searching for dozens of people missing a day after a huge explosion devastated the port area of the capital, Beirut. The blast, which shook the whole city, killed at least 113 people and injured more ...

Zimbabwean’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has vowed to deal firmly with opposition figures and human rights campaigners amid growing uproar over corruption and economic mismanagement. In a televised address on Tuesday, the president condemned the “machinations of destructive, terrorist opposition groupings”. ...

Millions of people in parts of northern England are now facing new restrictions, banning separate households from meeting each other at home after a spike in Covid-19 cases. The rules impact people in Greater Manchester, east Lancashire and parts of ...

Zambia’s President Edgar Lungu has fired Education Minister David Mabumba with immediate effect. In a statement released by Mr Lungu’s spokesperson Isaac Chipampe, no reason was given for the dismissal. However, earlier in the morning, videos of a man who ...

Zambian MP Princess Kasune Zulu, who is living with HIV and is a prominent AIDS activist, has announced that she has tested positive for Covid-19. Ms Zulu, a member of the opposition United Party for National Development, was tested last ...

A 12-year-old girl has been rescued by authorities in Kenya after she was married off to two men in the span of one month. The girl’s father, in Narok County west of the capital Nairobi, forced her to marry a ...

Moscow, Russia has become the first nation to complete clinical trials of COVID-19 vaccine on humans, and the results have proven the medication’s effectiveness, the media reported on Sunday. Chief researcher Elena Smolyarchuk, who heads the Center for Clinical Research ...

Kenya’s education ministry has said that all primary and secondary schools will reopen next year. The ministry said all students would resume studies in their current classes. Education Minister George Magoha said no final-year national examinations would be held for ...