According to Global Terrorism Index, Al-Shabaab is the deadliest terror group in Africa. Trailing closely behind are Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimeen (JNIM), Islamic State West Africa, and Boko Haram.
Jacob Morenga, also known as the "black Napoleon", was one of the chief leader in the insurrections against the German Empire which took place between 1904 and 1908.
Seychelles ranks as the richest country in Africa, with a reported per capita GDP of $11,426. With a population of less than 100,000, the country has the tiniest population in Africa.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace prize laureate who helped end apartheid in South Africa, has died aged 90.
His death was confirmed in a statement by President Cyril Ramaphosa.
It marked "another chapter of bereavement in our nation's farewell to...
Archaeologists have found one of the four lost sun temples built by the pharaohs while they were still alive in an attempt to turn themselves into living gods.
The trial of 14 men, including a former president, has opened in Burkina Faso over the assassination of the country’s revered revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara 34 years ago.
Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has been awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature becoming the first black African author to win the award since Wole Soyinka in 1986.
A lion sanctuary near Harrismith in the eastern Free State, a province of South Africa allows people to get up close with its lions, by locking visitors in a plexiglass cage for up to 45 minutes at a time.
