Marijuana: Tunisian women’s experience in prison
It is no surprise that Tunisia's prisons are overcrowded as it's relatively easy to end up there. In one prison BBC met two women...
ANC’s Mantashe warns of ‘mafia state’ in South Africa
South Africa risks turning into a "mafia state", a senior governing party official has warned, as pressure grows on President Jacob Zuma over his...
Rivers rerun: INEC, security agencies must work within law, says Wike
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, has assured that the people of the state are committed to peaceful and credible polls.
He also advised the...
Boko Haram: Cameroon sentences 89 militants to death
Cameroon has sentenced 89 members of Nigerian militant group, Boko Haram, to death.
Some 850 alleged members of Boko Haram, which pledged allegiance to the...
Activists condemn Senate’s non-approval of gender, equal opportunity bill
Nigeria's Senate has been condemned for rejecting a proposed bill aimed at eliminating "all forms of discrimination" against women.
Rights activists said that the bill...
Morocco threatens to withdraw soldiers from UN peacekeepers
Morocco has threatened to pull its soldiers out of the United Nations (UN) global peacekeeping missions in a row over the disputed territory of...
Brazil protests over chief of staff appointment
Brazilians have protested in several cities against President Dilma Rousseff after she named her predecessor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, chief of staff. In...
Edo guber race: Ogiemwonyi woos delegates
One of the major contenders on the platform of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in the Edo State September 10, 2016, governorship race, Chris...
Okorocha alleges marginalisation of Imo by NDDC, appeals to Senate
Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, has appealed to the Senate Committee on NNiger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to look into what he called...
Invasion of Ekiti House of Assembly: DSS evades service of court order
The Department of State Services (DSS) has refused to accept the service of the Federal High Court, Ado-Ekiti order for the immediate release of...
