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Robert Lewandowski has been warned that he would be making a mistake by choosing to join Premier League titans Manchester United over fellow giants Arsenal this summer. That is the belief of former Premier League title winner Chris Sutton, who thinks Lewandowski would be better suited upping sticks to the...

Nigerian soldiers have found one of the more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram operatives eight years ago in the conflict-torn northeast, the military has said. The April 2014 attack on a girls’ boarding school in the town of Chibok and the mass kidnapping that followed sparked international outrage...

Kenya is facing inflation, unemployment and public debt. But George Wajackoyah, one of the four presidential candidates in the Augus 9 polls, wants to get the economy back on track by legalising cannabis and snake farming. His rivals – former Prime Minister Raila Odinga and Deputy President William Ruto –...

Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud appointed lawmaker Hamza Abdi Barre the country’s prime minister on Wednesday, with the new premier facing a host of challenges including a looming famine and an Islamist insurgency. “The president wishes the new PM utmost success as he leads the government’s ambitious reform agenda and...

East African nations will deploy a regional force to the conflict-ridden eastern part of Democratic Republic of Congo, where renewed fighting is threatening to engulf neighboring countries. Diplomatic tensions between Congo and Rwanda have ratcheted up in recent weeks, with the giant resource-rich nation accusing its tiny neighbor of backing...