Nigeria

Men and women harvesting crops assaulted by armed attackers on motorcycles, UN says.

Some 40 people reported ‘slaughtered’ in attack on labourers working in rice fields in Borno state, northeast Nigeria.

The ‘priceless’ terracotta head was smuggled through Ghana to the Netherlands, officials said.

After losing almost everything after Nigeria’s police razed his community, Elijah Atinkpo now wants...

A Nigerian theatre director encourages women from Makoko in Lagos to participate in a play about violence against women.

Attack during Friday prayers in Nigeria’s Zamfara state kills five worshippers with many others abducted.

The country’s economy shrinks two quarters in a row amid contraction in its oil sector.

Different activist communities came together to create one of the greatest social movements in Nigeria’s history.

Social media regulations in Africa are not fighting hate speech and disinformation.

Change is coming to Nigeria, whether the political elite wants it or not.

Parts of Yemen, Burkina Faso, Nigeria and South Sudan could slip into famine if conditions keep deteriorating.

Arrests come weeks after Africa’s most populous country was rocked by biggest anti-government protests in decades.

Young Ghanaians who travelled to Nigeria to work as farm hands show the most precious possession they took with them.

Blaze at internally displaced persons camp in northern Borno state destroyed at least 1,200 tents, officials say.