South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has told a press conference that there would be "no dark Christmas" amidst crippling power cuts that have hit the country.
A Sharia Court sitting in Magajin Gari, Kaduna State in Nigeria has sentenced a teenage student to one-year imprisonment over sexual encroachment on, and criminal intimidation of, his stepmother.
Heavy rains have battered parts of South Africa, submerging whole neighbourhoods and flooding coal mines and power stations in a nation already hit by electricity blackouts.
One of Britain’s youngest transgender children has begun transitions at the age of 12 after realizing he was in the ‘wrong body’ aged just three.