Guinea-Bissau president arrested as gunfire heard, sources tell BBC

Catholic bishop hits out at Nigeria's failure to rescue abducted schoolchildren

Twenty-four Nigerian schoolgirls released over a week after abduction

Russian mercenaries accused of cold-blooded killings in Mali

Ntungamo villages get power hope as government reinstalls long-idle transformers

Abductions: Tinubu orders 24-hour aerial surveillance on Kwara, Kebbi, Niger Forest

Ugandan opposition says over 300 supporters detained in presidential campaign

Nollywood actor Odira Nwobu dies in South Africa aged 43

UK rejects Nigeria’s request to transfer Ekweremadu to Nigeria to complete prison sentence