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It has been a good year for gold. A host of turbulent events in the global economy has driven up prices for the glittery commodity to record highs in 2025. In a world of tariffs and international conflict, gold appeals to investors as one of the few remaining stable assets. Everyone wants a piece of […]

One of Nigeria’s wealthiest businessmen, Aminu Dantata, is set to be buried in Saudi Arabia after he died on Saturday in the United Arab Emirates. Business mogul Dantata, 94, an uncle of Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote, leaves three wives, 21 children and 121 grandchildren. His body was set to be transferred from Abu Dhabi, […]

A street vendor shot in the head by police during protests two weeks ago has died a day after being declared brain-dead in hospital, his family says. “Boniface is no more. We have just viewed his body,” family spokeswoman Emily Wanjira told the BBC. Boniface Kariuki was shot as police cracked down on a protest […]

Liberia’s former President William Tolbert is set to receive a symbolic reburial on Tuesday, 45 years after he was murdered during a coup and his body believed to be dumped in a mass grave. Ten days after the president’s killing, following trials by a kangaroo court, 13 of his cabinet were stripped, tied to stakes […]

Some 76 Ghanaians who were trafficked to Nigeria under a fraudulent recruitment scheme have been rescued, Ghanaian police say. The victims, mostly young men, were lured with promises of football contracts with top foreign teams, job placements abroad or assistance with visa processing. Upon arrival, their travel documents and mobile phones were seized, and they […]

Aged just 19, Alawia Babiker Ahmed miscarried as she was fleeing on foot the devastating war that has ravaged Sudan’s western region of Darfur. “I was bleeding on the way,” she told the BBC, before hastening to add that she saw people who were “worse off” during her traumatic three-day walk of about 70km (45 […]

Morocco has established itself as the home of women’s football in Africa and over the next month its national team will look to realise its burgeoning potential on the pitch while the country continues to advance at pace off it. The kingdom plays host to the 2024 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (Wafcon) from 5-26 […]

Civic rights groups say at least seven people have been killed during a crackdown on protesters who are calling for Togo’s leader, Faure Gnassingbé, to step down and release political prisoners. Reports say dozens more people were injured – some severely. It comes weeks after Gnassingbé – who was president for two decades and whose […]

Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu has signed four finance bills into law in a set of major reforms aimed at restructuring the tax system in Africa’s most populous nation. The government says the new laws will simplify revenue collection, reduce the tax burden on some individuals and businesses, while also helping to raise much-needed government income […]

Kenya’s interior minister has denied that the police used excessive force during Wednesday’s protests in which at least 10 people were killed, describing them as “terrorism disguised as dissent” and an “unconstitutional attempt” to change the government. Kipchumba Murkomen thanked security agencies for their “remarkable restraint amid extreme provocation” crediting them with helping to “foil […]