Bodies with gunshot wounds and hands tied behind their backs have washed up in a […]

The military governor of Ituri province in eastern Congo has condemned the killing of 16 […]

The lawyer of a jailed Moroccan journalist, Soulaimane Raissouni, says his client is ready to […]

One of the most powerful forces in Tunisian politics, the UGTT labour union, has urged […]

Ethiopian government accusations that aid workers in the war-torn Tigray region are helping rebels are […]

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi of Egypt has said that it was time to increase the […]

A doctor in Sudan has told the BBC that at least some of the unidentified […]

Mozambique’s health minister has expressed concern over the issue of African countries receiving Covid vaccines […]

US companies are now looking into hiring long-distance drivers from South Africa to help with […]

Tanzania’s Defence Minister Elias Kwandikwa died on Monday night while being treated in Dar es […]

Nigeria has received a donation of four million doses of Covid-19 vaccine from the US […]

The daughter of South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma, Jabu, has hit out at British […]

Morocco is introducing new coronavirus restrictions, including a night curfew, as infection rates rise. The […]

Kenya’s deputy president was on Monday made to wait for clearance for hours before he […]

Six patients died in Songo village in central Mali, which has been besieged by armed […]

Dozens of bodies have washed up on a river that marks the border between Ethiopia […]

There are increasing concerns about Ethiopian unity as the conflict in the northern Tigray region […]

Rights groups and social media users have raised concerns about freedoms in Tunisia as more […]

Lecturers and non-academic staff at universities in Ghana have started an indefinite strike over pay. […]

A university graduate in Zambia has found work in the air force, after he spent […]

Malawi’s President, Lazarus Chakwera, has declared two days of national mourning in honour of 21 […]

Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan has arrived in Kigali on her first official visit to […]

The head of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), Samantha Power, is due to […]

Algerian students in France have raised more than €600,000 ($713,000; £513,000) to buy medical equipment […]

Doctors in Nigeria’s public hospitals are set to begin an indefinite strike over poor pay […]

Mozambique’s state-owned fuel distributor, Petromoc, has denied links to an oil spill that happened over […]

More than 700 migrants have been picked up by rescue ships in the Mediterranean Sea […]

Tunisia’s parliament speaker Rached Ghannouchi was discharged from hospital on Sunday hours after he was […]

Zambia’s President Edgar Lungu has ordered the deployment of the military to suppress electoral violence […]

Ethiopia’s national carrier Ethiopian Airlines has denied reports that it shipped arms to the conflict-hit […]

Fifteen soldiers have been killed in what Niger’s defence ministry has described as a “terrorist […]

The Nigerian police say they have received ‘’allegation and indictment processes’’ from the US Federal […]

Zimbabwe’s economy is predicted to grow this year by 7.8%, which is slightly more than […]

Kenya has signed a deal with the UK that will allow its unemployed nurses and […]

Tunisian President Kais Saied has indicated plans for a looming crackdown on corruption in the […]

Rwandan forces killed 14 militants during their recent operations in Mozambique, an army spokesperson has […]

Somalia’s Jubbaland regional state assembly has elected Ilyas Badal Gabose as the first member of […]

Eighteen people have been killed by gunmen in Niger in an area near the border […]

A Zimbabwean who sought asylum in the UK after fleeing his home country nearly two […]

The UN humanitarian chief, Martin Griffiths, is visiting Ethiopia amid concerns of a worsening humanitarian […]

The family of British national Nnamdi Kanu, a leader of a Biafran separatist movement in […]

At a global education summit in London hosted by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and […]

Burundi has agreed to receive Covid jabs, but the government says it will not urge […]

Nigerian Instagram celebrity Hushpuppi , whose real name is Ramon Abbas, has pleaded guilty to […]

Somalis online have questioned why some state governments received donations of ballot boxes from the […]

A huge container ship that blocked the Suez Canal in March, disrupting global trade, has […]

Tunisian President Kais Saeid has dismissed the head of the national television station, Mohamed Lassaad […]

Civilians have borne the brunt of unlawful killings, kidnappings and the widespread destruction of houses […]

Intense fighting is being reported in Ethiopia’s Amhara region – the latest sign that the […]

Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu has been vaccinated against Covid-19. “We are not an island and […]

A South African state commission has expressed concern over the “inhumane” treatment of suspected looters […]

Is Ethiopia’s Tigray region any closer to finding peace? It’s been almost nine months since the […]

International monitors in South Sudan say they are worried over the continued clashes threatening the […]

The top appeals court in France is due to rule on a conviction handed to […]

The African Union (AU) has joined the European Union and the US in calling for […]

A Mozambican police officer has helped deliver a baby for a homeless woman, who has […]

Tunisia’s dismissed Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi says he will not cling on to his position, […]

The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that half a million children in southern […]

At least 57 people are reported to have drowned off the Libyan coast – the […]

Ivory Coast’s President Alassane Ouattara will on Tuesday meet his predecessor Laurent Gbagbo. This will […]

Lawyers to Nigeria’s pro-Biafra leader Nnamdi Kanu say they have started legal action against Nigeria […]

Tunisian President Kais Saied has extended the nightly curfew by two extra hours, a day […]

Nigeria’s pro-Biafra leader Nnamdi Kanu is due to appear in court on Monday in the […]

South Africa has eased some Covid restrictions after President Cyril Ramaphosa said the country had […]

A man accused of trying to stab Mali’s interim president, Assimi Goïta, last week has […]

Algeria has expressed “deep concerns” over reports that Morocco had used software to spy on […]

A Ugandan weightlifter who went missing from a pre-Olympics camp in western Japan has been flown home […]

Taking your music everywhere has never been this easy. Music streaming is now a multi-billion dollar […]

A committee of US lawmakers has expressed concern over the arrest of the Tanzanian opposition […]

The UN Human Rights Committee has found that Mauritius’ new identity card laws violate privacy […]

Thirteen civilians have been killed in clashes in the Central African Republic, the UN peacekeeping […]

Rwandan forces deployed to help contain an Islamist insurgency have killed at least 30 jihadists, […]

Kenya has begun using drones to identify mosquito breeding sites in the country and kill […]

Nigeria has received the first six of 12 military aircraft it bought from the United […]

The Ethiopian government says it has met its second-year target for filling a dam on […]

South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma has appeared on a video link from prison to […]

The health authorities in South Sudan say they have closed down all the Covid-19 vaccination […]

Votes are being counted in Sao Tome’s presidential election after polls closed on Sunday in […]

Nigeria has placed its capital Abuja and six other states on high alert following the […]

The corruption trial of South Africa’s jailed ex-President Jacob Zuma resumes on Monday following deadly […]

Zimbabwe’s ruling party has denied reports it intends to ban women and girls from wearing […]

Ethiopia has warned foreign media of stringent measures if they continue to refer to the […]

The conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region is showing further signs of spreading to other areas […]

The United Nations children’s agency, Unicef, has condemned the kidnapping and murder of children in […]

Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has condemned the killing of Joanna Stutchbury, a Kenyan environmentalist and […]

Bahir Dar, Ethiopia – Tigrayan fighters this week launched a new offensive along the southern border […]

Almost every night, a handful of young men slip across the well-guarded border, swimming across […]

The United Nations refugee agency has warned the situation in camps housing Eritrean refugees in […]

Ethiopia’s media regulator has suspended the licence of privately-owned Addis Standard news site over what […]

The rights organisation Amnesty International has called on the Ethiopian government to either release or […]

Africa has recorded a 43% rise in Covid-19 deaths in the last week, the World […]

The amputation of a hand and a foot on opposite sides (the right hand and […]

Humanitarian workers strive to deliver life-saving assistance to the most vulnerable people in South Sudan, […]

Celebrations to mark the Muslim festival of Eid ul-Adha have been cancelled in two traditional […]

Growing numbers of troops are reported to be mobilising across Ethiopia to join the fight […]

A man has been executed by firing squad in southern Somalia’s Jubaland state for raping […]

The military forces in South Africa have called up all members of the army reserve […]

Eswatini’s King Mswati III has called for an open forum to discuss the pro-democracy protests […]

The United States says it is concerned by the worsening human rights situation in Egypt. […]

A man’s chilling confession to killing at least 10 children has topped Kenyan newspaper headlines. […]

Rights group Amnesty International has condemned what it called the complicity of European states in […]

The Rwandan government has announced a 10-day lockdown in the capital, Kigali, and eight other […]

A South African daily newspaper will for the second day not publish a print edition […]

The authorities in Ethiopia’s Amhara region say they will go on the offensive against forces […]

Zambia’s founding president Kenneth Kaunda has been laid to rest at a memorial site for […]

Medical charity MSF has suspended its work in some parts of Ethiopia’s war-torn region of […]

Ethiopia has started the second phase of filling the reservoir of its mega-dam on the […]

Rwanda has re-opened Covid treatment centres after a surge in cases and they are now […]

South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma must hand himself over to police Wednesday or face […]

At least 18 people have been killed by gunmen in the north-western Nigerian state of […]

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday stressed the need for a negotiated ceasefire […]

Zambia’s founding president Kenneth Kaunda is being laid to rest in a state funeral on […]

Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta is under fire for launching projects past curfew hours. President Kenyatta […]

Rebel forces in Ethiopia’s Tigray region are preparing for a new conflict with militia from […]

Former South Africa’s president Jacob Zuma’s application seeking to halt his 15-month jail term is […]

A fire broke out on Monday night in a storehouse in the church of the […]

One of Mali’s former President Ibrahim Keïta’s son, Karim, is wanted by Interpol over the […]

The senate in the Democratic Republic of Congo has lifted the immunity of former Prime […]

Egypt has denounced Ethiopia’s decision to begin filling the reservoir behind its giant hydropower dam […]

Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has downplayed Monday’s capture by rebels of the Tigrayan regional […]

The internet has been shut off and a curfew imposed in Eswatini, the southern African […]

 man extradited to Rwanda from the Netherlands has been sentenced to 25 years in prison […]

The UK has denied involvement in the arrest and extradition of Nnamdi Kanu, who leads […]

A five-year-old girl has died during a helicopter flight to hospital after being rescued from […]

Two people have been arrested in Uganda for giving out fake Covid-19 vaccines. One more […]

Namibia’s President Hage Geingob has said his country is facing a “dark and sombre moment” […]

Two suspected jihadists have been arrested over the Solhan attack in the north-eastern region of […]

The United Nations says it needs urgent access to tens of thousands of vulnerable people […]

Catholic schools seized. Church-run clinics shut down. Eritrean Catholics say the government has – for years – […]

Ivory Coast’s former President Laurent Gbagbo has criticised the International Criminal Court (ICC) for being […]

Severe storms have damaged the shelters of more than 16,000 Ethiopian refugees in eastern Sudan, […]

Kenya will set up a “fill and finish” vaccine plant where the last process of […]

Two years after a popular uprising in Sudan led to the end of a 30-year […]

Kenyans living in three counties in the north of the East African nation risk starvation […]

Children in northern Mozambique displaced by the Islamist insurgency have been traumatised by their experiences, […]

The United States has said Ethiopia’s declaration of a unilateral ceasefire in the Tigray region […]

Ethiopia’s government said it has declared an immediate, unilateral ceasefire in its northern Tigray region […]

There are some more details on the breaking story that Ethiopia’s federal government has accepted […]

The interim administration in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, appointed by the federal government, has called for […]

The United Nations has called on states to stop denying racism and start dismantling it. […]

Burkinabe President Roch Kaboré has called on opposition and civil society groups to cancel planned […]

Nigerian music star Burna Boy is this year’s winner of the Best International Act at […]

The authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern city of Beni on Sunday declared […]

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has called out “vaccine selfishness” in the world but said it […]

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced tough new restrictions to limit the impact of […]

The UK has added Uganda to the “red list” nations from where travellers will not […]

Medical professionals in South Africa are having to choose who to save as the system […]

Battle lines” have been drawn in a row over who should succeed to South Africa’s […]

Three constituencies in Zambia will not have their parliamentary elections on 12 August as the […]

At least 10 people have been killed in an attack by suspected jihadists in western […]

A Congolese musician, Tresor Riziki, has launched an appeal to raise funds for communities affected […]

A new port has been officially opened in Berbera in the self-declared republic of Somaliland, […]

The Ethiopian military has rejected claims that its plane which crashed in the Tigray region […]

Ethiopia’s military has rejected accounts that dozens of civilians were killed in an air raid […]

The appointment of a woman to head a police training school in Mozambique accused of […]

Uganda’s parliament will be temporarily closed for two weeks as the country continues to battle […]

Dozens of people have reportedly been killed or injured after Ethiopia’s air force bombed a […]

South Africa opera singer Pretty Yende has thanked fans for their support after being subjected […]

Several people were killed and others injured in an airstrike in a town in Togoga, […]

US pro-democracy organisation Carter Center has confirmed the death of John Marsh, an American citizen […]

Zimbabwe has postponed the reopening of schools and other learning institutions by two weeks following […]

The Namibian president Hage Geingob has said he delayed getting a Covid-19 vaccine because doctors […]

The former president of Mauritania, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, has been jailed by a judge […]

The World Food Programme is warning that the worst drought in southern Madagascar for four […]

Sudan’s foreign minister has written to the UN Security Council to intervene on the row […]

At least three people have been killed after an attack on a polling station 50km […]

Voting in Ethiopia is continuing in some parts of the country for a second day […]

The formation of a unified national army is a “critical element” in South Sudan’s transition […]

Zambian health authorities have expressed concern over rising coronavirus-related deaths, as the country continues to […]

Ivory Coast and Ghana, the world’s top two cocoa producers, have threatened to name and […]

Sudan has once again urged the UN to replace Ethiopian peacekeepers in the disputed Abyei […]

Several French soldiers were injured in an attack on a base in central Mali. The […]

The European Union is in the process of removing financial restrictions on Burundi, the president’s […]

The only prominent opposition politician taking part in election has said that it is not […]

The attack occurred in the Kaigourou neighbourhood of Gossi in central Mali injuring several soldiers operating under […]

Antonio Guterres has urged Ethiopian authorities to ensure that all voters cast their votes ” […]

Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has been inspecting several projects in the capital, Addis Ababa, […]

Some polling stations in Ethiopia have experienced delays in opening. In Finote polling station, Bahir […]

The main issue for Ethiopians as they vote is security and peace, the BBC’s Kalkidan […]

Voters in Ethiopia’s Ambo town – where only ruling party candidates are running – have […]

Parties in Ethiopia’s most populous region, Oromia, said they would boycott the election. The Oromo […]

Ethiopians have started voting in regional and parliamentary elections, despite worsening ethnic tensions along with […]

Eritrean troops who have been fighting in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray will leave “soon”, […]

Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has warned that there is a risk of the country […]

Namibia has announced tight measures to limit the spread of coronavirus after a recent spike […]

The senate in the Democratic Republic of Congo has voted against a request to lift […]

lgeria’s ruling party, the National Liberation Front (FLN), has won most seats in last Saturday’s […]

President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced new restrictions as South Africa faces a third wave of Covid-19. A […]

The UN humanitarian chief says the situation in the Ethiopian region of Tigray is worse […]

The UN humanitarian chief says the situation in the Ethiopian region of Tigray is worse […]

President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced new restrictions as South Africa faces a third wave of Covid-19. A […]

Algeria’s ruling party, the National Liberation Front (FLN), has won most seats in last Saturday’s […]

The United Kingdom’s permanent representative to the United Nations has warned famine is imminent in […]

The senate in the Democratic Republic of Congo has voted against a request to lift […]

Namibian has announced tight measures to limit the spread of coronavirus after a recent spike […]

Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has warned that there’s a risk of the country descending […]

Eritrean troops who have been fighting in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray will leave “soon”, […]

Two soldiers in Equatorial Guinea have been charged with homicide and negligence in a military […]

Nigeria’s government holds Twitter and its CEO Jack Dorsey indirectly liable for the losses the […]

Police in a South African village in Kwazulu-Natal are struggling to stop people searching for […]

The UN Security Council has called for free and fair elections in Mali in the […]

A son of a Zimbabwean national hero has taken to social media to protest against […]

Senegalese President Macky Sall has called for urgent action after at least eight people died […]

At least 15 army recruits have been killed in a suicide bomb attack at a […]

The health authorities in South Sudan have said that they have so far vaccinated more […]

An Egyptian court has upheld the death penalty for 12 members of the Muslim Brotherhood, […]

Hamane Niang, the Malian president of basketball’s governing body in Africa, Fiba, has agreed to […]

The military court in Kampala has released on bail 18 supporters of opposition politician Robert […]

Zambia’s founding father Kenneth Kaunda has been admitted to hospital after feeling “unwell”, a statement […]

The Eritrean Orthodox church has consecrated a new patriarch as the former leader remains in […]

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has reiterated the need for a patent waiver to allow […]

Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan has urged the country’s central bank to be prepared for […]

At a press conference this month the World Health Organization (WHO) said the situation with […]

Algeria’s ministry of communications says that the accreditation of France 24 has been cancelled. The […]

In an enigmatic message, Twitter boss Jack Dorsey has tweeted three Nigerian flags with no […]

Zambia’s President Edgar Lungu has assured citizens that he is well after collapsing while attending […]

The G7 group has called for unimpeded access for aid workers to Ethiopia’s northern Tigray […]

The United States has voiced concerns ahead of Ethiopia’s elections, saying ethnic violence and detentions […]

In tonight’s edition: French President Emmanuel Macron announces a reduction of France’s military operations in […]

Uganda has recorded its highest number of coronavirus cases since the pandemic begun. A total […]

Ethiopia’s electoral board has postponed until September elections in two of the country’s federal states […]

Muslim leaders in Burundi have disowned a cleric’s criticism against the interior minister after he […]

A 63-year-old Zimbabwean woman is suing the police boss and home affairs minister for alleged […]

The United States has condemned Nigeria’s ban on Twitter. The US Department of State’s Spokesman […]

Kenya has lifted a ban on direct flights to and from Somalia barely a month […]

Some 350,000 people in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region are facing “catastrophic” food shortages, according to […]

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has put his Health Minister Zweli Mkhize on special leave, […]

The United Nations’ refugee agency says thousands of villagers in Burkina Faso urgently need water, […]

People in a district of Ethiopia’s Tigray region have told the BBC, they are on […]

Eritrea has blamed the US government for the ongoing conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. In […]

Schools in Mekelle, the capital of the Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray, have reopened seven […]

Mozambique’s mobile firm Vodacom which oversees the money transfer platform, M-Pesa, says it blocks around […]

Twitter has been suspended in Nigeria after what could be described as a spat between the social […]

Several areas in Ethiopia’s northern region in Tigray are “on the brink of famine”, the […]

The UN Security Council has called on the Central African Republic authorities and other forces […]

Hospitals in Kenya are preparing for a surge in Covid-19 cases with some launching oxygen […]

The United States has imposed visa restrictions on people accused of inciting violence in English-speaking […]

Nigeria says it’s in discussions with Twitter, having suspended the social media platform over the […]

All artisanal mines are being closed in the northern province of Sahel, in Burkina Faso, […]

Belarusian club FC Vitebsk said on Monday that Nigerian footballer Kelvin Odenigbo drowned over the […]

The prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo says people can start returning to […]

A collision involving two passenger trains in southern Pakistan has killed at least 40 people […]

Col Assimi Goïta, the leader of Mali’s junta, has officially been sworn in as the […]

The leader of the Nigerian militant group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, has killed himself, rival […]

State media in Sudan say nearly 40 people have been killed and dozens wounded in […]

Congolese musician Aimé Nkanu says he has alerted French police after suffering a racist attack. […]

A sense of normalcy is returning to a Rwandan district ravaged by volcanic activity in […]

The two opposition parties in the self-declared republic of Somaliland have won the majority of […]

Zambian police chief Kakoma Kanganja has denied reports that the country’s security forces fired on […]

This month students in eSwatini demonstrated outside the country’s capital to demand action, alleging that […]

wo Libyan security officers were killed and five others injured in a blast at a […]

Colonel Assimi Goïta is being sworn in as Mali’s interim president on Monday. It’s a […]

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has shut down schools and suspended public gatherings as the country […]

Thousands of people in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, have been marching to demand justice for […]

Twitter has removed a post by Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari threatening punishment for regional secessionists […]

In a joint statement, the German and Namibian governments have fleshed out some of the […]

Gunmen hijacked a school bus in the early hours of Thursday in Akure, the capital […]

A Kenyan court has allowed over 1,000 residents living near a British military training base […]

A joint African Union and United Nations team is in South Sudan visiting towns and […]

A driver in Kenya’s Kitui county was admitted to a hospital following a bizarre incident […]

Namibia’s state-run hospitals are “facing a critical shortage of life-saving oxygen” as the number of […]

Two lecturers at Nigeria’s University of Lagos (Unilag) have been dismissed following an investigation into […]

A driver in Kenya’s Kitui county was admitted to a hospital following a bizarre incident […]

The South Sudan Red Cross (SSRC) has suspended operations in Torit, Eastern Equatoria state after […]

Uganda’s Transport Minister General Katumba Wamala was discharged from hospital after undergoing surgery to remove […]

The International Criminal Court’s prosecutor has asked Sudan to hand over a key suspect accused […]

Forty-two people have been charged after they were arrested in a raid on an LGBTI+ […]

he UN’s children’s agency, Unicef, is urging the world’s richest countries to donate a fifth […]

Two parents of kidnapped schoolchildren in Tegina in Nigeria’s central Niger state have died of […]

Ugandan Minister Katumba Wamala, who survived an assassination attempt on Tuesday, has thanked the rider […]

A humanitarian organisation says at least 23 migrants have drowned off the coast of Tunisia […]

Amnesty International has asked Chad to ensure that officers responsible for killing protesters during demonstrations […]

South Africa’s power company Eskom has announced load shedding, or scheduled blackouts, that will last […]

The leader of a Western Saharan separatist group arrived in Algeria early on Wednesday, after […]

Police in Uganda have released street camera footage of two men believed to be behind […]

Kenyan authorities have arrested a Ghanaian national for allegedly fraudulently obtaining $83,000 (£58,490) from a […]

UN’s World Food Programme says hunger levels are increasing in the northern Ethiopian region as […]

A film is to be made by Disney about a woman who was adopted in […]

Nearly 500,000 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been left without clean drinking […]

Mali has been suspended from the African Union (AU) following last week’s military coup – […]

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has warned that his government will not tolerate any action promoting […]

Mali’s transitional President Col Assimi Goïta has named Choguel Kokalla Maïga as the country’s new […]

The head of an Islamic school in Nigeria where some students were abducted on Sunday […]

Ivory Coast’s former President Laurent Gbagbo is set to return home this month, weeks after […]

The African Union Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat has appealed to the members of the […]