The Senate Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe (PDP, Abia South), has said the 2020 budget presented by President Muhammadu Buhari is “nothing but a budget of taxation”. Abaribe made the statement during the deliberations of the Appropriation Bill. President Muhammadu Buhari had on Tuesday presented a proposed N10.33 trillion budget to the national assembly for 2020.

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed sadness over the death of a mother and her child in the tanker accident in Onitsha, Anambra State.

Conservative academic Kais Saied, who is poised to become Tunisia's next president, has thanked the "young people for turning a new page" in the country's history. The independent candidate won more than 70% of the vote.

Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari and South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa discussed political and economic ties that the two countries have and how they plan to make them stronger. CNBC Africa's Karabo Letlhatlha spoke with the minister of trade and industry, Ebrahim Patel.

In some paintings, the wounds are plain to see: an arm or leg lost to war. In others, the injuries that US veterans suffered are hidden from view. But all of the works by former president George W.Bush reflect some of the human toll of his decisions as commander-in-chief.

The former South African president has been denied a stay of the prosecution to prevent him from being charged in a graft case. He faces 16 charges of fraud, racketeering and money laundering.

Thousands of supporters in Minnesota cheered on U.S. President Donald Trump as he took aim at Democrats and political rival Joe Biden, calling his son Hunter Biden a "loser". It's the first rally Trump has held since Democrats opened an impeachment inquiry in September.

Former Vice President Joe Biden called for President Donald Trump to be impeached for the first time. Biden spoke to supporters at an event in Rochester, New Hampshire.

Rwandans abroad are summoned to mingle and to meet President Paul Kagame each year. The conference-style Rwanda Day, taking place in Germany on Saturday is festive but not without an unspoken political undercurrent.

President Donald Trump threatens litigation over the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. He speaks during a joint news conference with Finland's President Sauli Niinisto in Washington.

President Donald Trump, speaking to reporters as he left the White House on Thursday, said Chinese President Xi Jinping should consider investigating Joe Biden and his son. The president has said Hunter Biden won about $1.5 billion for an investment fund after traveling to China with his father.

In Indonesia, a bill that would have amongst other things imposed punishments on cohabiting non-married couples and people having sex outside of marriage has been put on ice by President Joko Widodo.