Muslims across Africa are marking the end of Ramadan - the holiest month of the Islamic calendar - with prayers and festivities amid calls for peace and unity. In Nigeria, President Bola Tinubu called on his compatriots to renew their commitment to peaceful coexistence and service to humanity while reflecting on the spiritual lessons of the month.

Kenyan President William Ruto

A Harare court has been ordered to compel the founder of Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries, Walter Magaya, to plead guilty to rape charges. Prosecutors said he filed numerous frivolous and vexatious court applications that stalled the prosecution of his criminal case.

In papers filed at the Harare Regional Magistrates Court, prosecutors said Magaya's pre-trial motions were intended to frustrate the

The United States has designated the Sudanese Muslim Brotherhood as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT). It intends to list it as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation effective March 16, 2026. The move seeks to intensify pressure on actors accused of fueling Sudan's ongoing conflict.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said

U.S. House committees investigating the alleged persecution of Christians in Nigeria have formally submitted their findings to President Donald Trump. The report proposes a roadmap for curbing religious violence, enforcing accountability, and bolstering security cooperation between Washington and Abuja.

The probe was triggered by Trump's decision to redesignate Nigeria as a "Country of Particular

Paul Mackenzie, a self-proclaimed religious preacher and seven others were charged over the deaths of at least 52 people whose bodies were found in shallow graves in Kwa Binzaro, Kilifi County, a year after the wider Shakahola cult investigation began.

Prosecutors said the group engaged in organised criminal activity,

President William Ruto has said Kenyan politicians should not use the church for political gain. "We should not politicize it or spread hate and disagreements," Ruto told his compatriots during a Church service on Sunday.

His remarks follow a recent incident in which former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua was allegedly

Prophetic Healing and Deliverance leader Walter Magaya appeared before the Harare Magistrates' Court shortly after his arrest to face four counts of rape. The matter was remanded to February 16 for a trial set to run until February 19, 2026.

The State alleged that in June 2020, Magaya offered a 24-year-old woman a voluntary position at the PHD call centre and later lured her to a church-owned hotel, where she

A U.S. Congressional delegation that recently visited Nigeria to assess the country's security situation has ruled out the possibility of deploying American troops to the West African nation.

The lawmakers said the designation of Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) was intended to encourage reforms through diplomatic partnership rather than military intervention. The delegation urged the Nigerian

One of Desmond Tutu's closest aides and spiritual companions in his retirement years, his son-in-law, Mthunzi Gxashe - perhaps the most admired and loved Tutu aide at home and abroad - has died in Johannesburg.

Nigerian authorities have said that they had secured the release of 100 schoolchildren abducted from St. Mary's Catholic boarding school in Niger state. The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) said 315 pupils and staff were abducted by gunmen on November 21 from St. Mary's co-educational boarding school in the