Kenya's top political TV show hosted by former CNN journalist Jeff Koinange has been dropped after a male guest made a rape remark about a female guest.
First Lady of Zimbabwe, Grace Mugabe, has reportedly told a powerful bloc in the ruling Zanu-PF party that she was already the president of the country because she ‘plans and does everything with President Robert Mugabe.’
Former Nigerian Vice President Atiku Abubakar has strongly criticised undergraduates from public Universities in the West African country for not being able to "speak English in error-free manner".
Nigeria's government has failed to pay the country's ex-leaders their monthly salaries and allowances since January because of a cash crisis, government secretary Babachir Lawal has said.
A verdict is expected this week in the case of a man arrested in Malawi after he told a BBC reporter he had had sex with pubescent girls as part of a "cleansing" ritual. But some Malawians are asking why only one man is on trial for a practice involving whole communities.
Nigeria's Nobel-Prize winning author Wole Soyinka says he will leave the US on the day Donald Trump is inaugurated as president, the Abuja-based The Interview magazine reports.
The electricity briefly went off at a hotel in Nambia's capital, Widndhoek, where the government was meeting foreign businessmen to urge them to invest in the energy sector, the private Namibian newspaper reports.
One of the Chibok schoolgirls abducted in Nigeria has been found with a 10-month-old baby son, the military says. The girl was discovered in Pulka in northern Borno state, spokesman Sani Usman said.
