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19.05.2025 16:00 Tundu Lissu makes his first appearance in court since his arrest on treason charges last month.

19.05.2025 16:00 President Bola Tinubu defeated Peter Obi in the 2023 elections - and may face off again in 2027.

19.05.2025 10:50 An investigation into the illicit mining sector reveals a world of child exploitation.

18.05.2025 19:50 Karua was allowed into Tanzania last month but has been stopped this time ahead of Tundu Lissu's trial.

17.05.2025 03:21 Ozwald Boateng's four decades of experience was on show at the fashion world's biggest event.

16.05.2025 22:41 Masra's party the Transformers say their leader's detention took place "outside of any known judicial procedure".

16.05.2025 18:03 Sylvia Bongo and her son was freed from prison last week despite facing charges of embezzling public funds.

16.05.2025 18:03 South African teenager Khosi Dlomo wants to encourage others to take up her little-known equestrian sport of tent pegging.

16.05.2025 18:03 Cameroon forward Bryan Mbeumo did not expect to be nominated for the Premier League player of the season award despite an impressive campaign with Brentford.

16.05.2025 13:01 The TPLF fought a two-year civil war against the federal government, which ended in 2022.

16.05.2025 03:20 Charl Kleinhaus tells the BBC he had no choice but to leave his farm in South Africa after receiving death threats.

16.05.2025 03:20 US President Donald Trump says a genocide is taking place in South Africa, a claim a judge dismissed as "imaginary".

15.05.2025 21:40 Nearly 80% of the 1.9 million students who sat the exams did not get high enough marks to get into university.

15.05.2025 21:40 Author Abi Daré has been awarded the £10,000 prize for her second novel, And So I Roar.

15.05.2025 16:50 An investigative report says some state officials sold Jammeh's assets to themselves at low prices.