Dipo Faloyin

The governor of Lagos has promised to coordinate an investigation into the 27-year-old's death, including exhuming his body for an autopsy.

Western analysts claim we are seeing the death of democracy in Africa. But the reality is far more complicated than that.

Military officers said they’d removed Ali Bongo from power days after he claimed victory in the presidential election. But the circumstances are very different from other recent coups in West and Central Africa.

Western allies are pressuring Nigerian President Bola Tinubu to take a tough stance against the new Niger junta. But lawmakers back home have signalled they are against using Nigerian troops.

West African leaders have given Niger’s military a week to hand power back to President Mohamed Bazoum.

Ex-Twitter workers in Ghana say they have been “ghosted” after the company promised to pay out three months severance.

An investigation by VICE News and The New Humanitarian has gathered evidence and testimonies from villagers who claim the military is destroying entire communities and killing civilians in its fight against militants.

Thousands of Wagner troops have been operating in a few African countries. But with its leader in exile following a failed mutiny, the future of Russia's operations on the continent are weakening.

Authorities are in a race against time to locate the missing Titan, which disappeared on a dive to the wreckage of the Titanic, some 13,000 feet below sea level.

An American man is accused of murder and sexual assault after two women – one of whom died – were allegedly pushed down a hill near Neuschwanstein Castle.

Okoli Ahinze was beaten to death at the Obafemi Awolowo University in southwestern Nigeria under a deeply controversial form of punishment unique to the university known as Scientific Maximum Shishi.

87 people linked to the Good News International Church have died, as Kenyan President William Ruto pledged a full investigation into the alleged cult he likened to “terrorism.”