Eswatini Prime Minister Cleopas Sipho Dlamini has blamed unnamed individuals for instigating a wave of […]

Ugandan opposition MP Allan Ssewanyana was re-arrested moments after being released from prison on bail […]

A Kenyan police officer who went missing from work and could not be found for […]

Zambia’s finance minister says talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are “very progressive”. Situmbeko […]

The UK parliamentary committee that scrutinises British aid has described funding cuts to several African […]

Three suspects behind the abduction of more than 100 students in the Nigerian state of […]

A journalist working for Angola’s state TV, TPA, has been sacked, weeks after he said […]

Thousands of protesters have taken part in a rally in Mali’s capital, Bamako, to call […]

Amnesty International has accused Gambian President Adama Barrow of failing to repeal repressive laws that […]

Algeria has closed its airspace to all Moroccan civil and military aircrafts, the Algerian presidency […]

Uganda is aiming to vaccinate at least six million people against Covid – more than […]

At least 46 people have died in Madagascar in a clash between cattle thieves and […]

Somalia has hosted its first public film screening in 30 years under heavy security – […]

The Moroccan authorities have ordered an investigation into the death of a newly elected regional […]

The World Health Organization (WHO) says the global commitment to provide Covid vaccines to Africa […]

The United Nations is urging “caution” over people returning to the restive northern Mozambican province […]

Two Tunisian MPs have been jailed by a military court amid concerns over human rights […]

Several African presidents have arrived in New York for the UN General Assembly. Tanzania’s Samia […]

Four Kenyan police officers and one civilian have a case to answer in the abduction […]

Guinea new junta arrested a former minister on Sunday and ransacked his home before releasing […]

A court in Rwanda is due to deliver its verdict in the case of the […]

A Somali scholar who was abducted in the Kenyan capital two weeks ago has been […]

Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema is earning some praise online for travelling with a “lean team” […]

Sixty-three endangered African penguins have been killed by a swarm of bees in a rare […]

At least 10 soldiers from the Cameroonian army’s elite Rapid Intervention Battalion were reportedly killed […]

South Africa’s top court has ruled that the former President Jacob Zuma has failed in […]

Netflix to stream Ethiopian film Sankofa BBC News Amharic An Ethiopian film about black resistance […]

Some flights expected to land in Kenya’s main airport in the capital Nairobi were diverted […]

The UN is expressing concern that hundreds of trucks carrying aid to the northern Ethiopian […]

The leaders of the two recent coups in Mali have been granted amnesty by the […]

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has called on the public to nominate their next chief […]

Leaders of West Africa regional bloc Ecowas have imposed travel bans and a freeze of […]

Catholic bishops in South Sudan have expressed frustration at the slow implementation of the revitalised […]

Ugandan prosecutors on Wednesday slapped additional charges of terrorism as well as aiding and abetting […]

Nigeria’s air force says it is now investigating reports that shots fired from one of […]

One million Nigerian children will likely stay away from school because of the threat of […]

Libyan forces loyal to the eastern-based commander, General Khalifa Haftar, have been clashing in the […]

The United Nations has urged Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan to resume talks to resolve the […]

Eritrean refugees were raped, detained and killed by forces in northern Ethiopia, according to a […]

A number of civilians were reportedly killed in north-east Nigeria’s Yobe State when a military […]

Leaders of the west African bloc Ecowas are due to hold a summit to discuss […]

The jihadist leader of the Islamic State group in the Greater Sahara has been killed […]

Kenyans online are expressing outrage following a sharp rise in the cost of fuel. The […]

Some 114 out of 240 prisoners have been recaptured after their weekend escape from a […]

A former health minister in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Dr Eteni Longondo, has been […]

The French defence minister, Florence Parly, has warned Mali against entering into a deal with […]

The military junta in Conakry has announced the gradual reopening of borders with neighbouring countries […]

The British foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, has been urged to block the appointment of Rwanda’s […]

Guinea’s military junta is due to start holding four days of talks later on Tuesday […]

The TB Joshua church in Nigeria has announced a new era in its leadership as […]

A Rwandan businessman has been shot dead in Matola municipality, a few kilometres outside the […]

An ambush on a Burkina Faso military convoy escorting fuel tankers from a gold mine […]

More than 20 people are admitted to hospital and one person has died in Kilifi […]

Guinea’s military junta, which took power last week, has announced a toll-free number for civilians […]

Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu has announced the country’s first woman defence minister. Stergomena Tax replaces […]

The South African president has announced the easing of some restrictions that have been in […]

Human rights group Amnesty International says attacks by Islamist militants in western Niger have worsened […]

Hundreds of opposition supporters have held a march in the Angolan capital, Luanda, to protest […]

Charles Konan Banny, who served as Ivory Coast’s prime minister from 2005 to 2007, has […]

King Mohammed VI of Morocco has appointed Aziz Akhannouch of the liberal National Rally of […]

The head of Gambia’s reconciliation commission has expressed disappointment at the political alliance between the […]

Former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has condemned the coup in Guinea. She told the […]

Almost all state institutions in Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province remain shut, about a month […]

Rwandan opposition figure and university lecturer Christopher Kayumba has been detained over rape allegations. Mr […]

A Tunisian MP and critic of the president has gone on hunger strike to protest […]

Guinea’s military junta has ordered banks to freeze all government-related accounts so as to “secure […]

African countries are set to receive far fewer Covid vaccine doses that initially expected from […]

A competition is under way on Twitter to come up with the best memes of […]

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has threatened to withdraw the country’s troops from the African Union’s […]

Kenya’s first woman chief justice has admitted that corruption is a menace in Kenya, both […]

Artefacts looted by British troops from Ethiopia in 1868 have been returned to the Ethiopian […]

The rift between Somalia’s prime minister and president is intensifying with the latest sacking of […]

Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has declared the drought affecting parts of the country a national […]

Former Mauritius Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam has been moved to India for treatment after he […]

Morocco’s Islamist Justice and Development Party (PJD) has suffered a crushing defeat in parliamentary elections, […]

An outbreak of meningitis has been declared in the north-eastern region of the Democratic Republic […]

Detained Nigerian separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu has sued President Muhammadu Buhari for violating his fundamental […]

Some Kenyans online have been complaining about the cost of a women-only service introduced by […]

Six secondary school students from the Democratic Republic of Congo have been banned from attending […]

Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi “Farmajo” has picked a new spy chief days after the prime […]

The Cape Verde’s constitutional court has ordered the extradition to the United States of a […]

People in Morocco are voting in parliamentary and local elections. Many voters are concerned about […]

Military leaders who’ve seized power in Guinea have released about 80 prisoners ahead of a […]

Five officials of South Africa’s home affairs department have been suspended for their role in […]

The government in Zimbabwe is asking its employees to get vaccinated against Covid-19 or resign. […]

Guinea’s main opposition leader has welcomed Sunday’s ousting of President Alpha Condé calling it an […]

South Africa’s electoral body has extended the nomination of candidates for the upcoming local government […]

The Democratic Republic of Congo has received 250,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine donated through […]

The authorities in Algeria arrested 27 people belonging to a separatist group that has been […]

Theforces group in Ethiopia’s Tigray region says that 150 people may have died of starvation […]

The G7 group of industrialised nations has called on President Kais Saied of Tunisia to […]

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has welcomed the decision to release former President Jacob Zuma […]

Col Mahamady Doumbouya addressed Guineans on state TV on Sunday explaining the reasons behind overthrowing […]

São Tomé and Príncipe’s former Infrastructure Minister Carlos Vila Nova has won Sunday’s twice-postponed presidential […]

More than 100 trucks of food aid have arrived in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region after […]

Special Forces Group Commander Colonel Mahamady Doumbouya confirmed the takeover of power from President Alpha […]

A Tanzanian newspaper has been suspended for 30 days for publishing false information, the government […]

The third son of the former Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, has been released from jail […]

Soldiers who seized power in Guinea on Sunday have ordered government ministers and national figures […]

Nigerians are concerned about not being able to reach their families in the north-western state […]

The United States has issued a statement “on the military seizure” condemning the apparent coup in Guinea. […]

A group of soldiers who ousted Guinea’s President Alpha Condé from power on Sunday have […]

A toxic leak from a massive diamond mine in Angola killed at least 12 people […]

The Nigerian military says nearly 6,000 Boko Haram members including commanders, fighters and their families […]

Zambian lawyer Nelly Mutti has become the country’s first female speaker of parliament – responsible […]

Burundi’s President, Evariste Ndayishimiye, has been condemned for his verbal attack against a journalist who […]

Five girls among dozens of students abducted from a secondary school in the northern Nigerian […]

Six illegal miners died after sneaking into the old pits of a gold mine in […]

Nearly 4,500 people have fallen sick in the south of the Democratic Republic of Congo […]

The European Union will return millions of South Africa-manufactured Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine doses […]

One of Rwanda’s most famous rappers, Jay Polly, has died at the age of 33 […]

Egypt says it plans to produce more than one billion doses of China’s Sinovac Covid […]

A Ugandan minister has raised concerns about “trade restrictions” imposed by neighbouring Kenya. A tweet […]

Communication has been re-established in Mozambique’s districts where networks were vandalised by insurgents, one of […]

Botswana’s president has suspended the assistant minister for health for attending a tombstone unveiling ceremony […]

An Ivorian TV programme presenter has been given a 12-month suspended prison sentence by an […]

South Africa has said it is unable to take in refugees from Afghanistan. “South Africa […]

Kenya’s customs authorities have given importers of unclaimed items up to the end of the […]

Zimbabwe has announced a further easing of Covid restrictions in the sports and arts sectors, […]

The body of a British journalist killed by armed robbers while on a reporting trip […]

South Sudan has received 59,520 doses of the Oxford AstraZeneca Covid vaccine from the global […]

South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma has accused the judiciary of not trusting a medical […]

A new laboratory test has found no evidence of Ebola in the samples of a […]

Kenya’s ambassador to Namibia is under fire online after a photo of him posing next […]

A Cameroonian priest has been abducted by separatists in the south-west of the country. Church […]

Zambia’s former President Edgar Lungu’s Facebook account has been deactivated. Zambians on Twitter say the […]

About 100,000 Kenyans have not yet received a second dose of the Covid vaccine and […]

The war in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region has forced over 1.42 million students out of […]

Researchers are monitoring a new coronavirus variant found in South Africa. The C.1.2, which has […]

In just a few days, São Tomé and Príncipe are to hold a runoff in […]

South Sudan’s First Vice-President Riek Machar has rejected government claims that he and President Salva […]

Authorities in the north-western Nigerian state of Zamfara have banned some economic activities in a […]

The governments of Uganda and South Sudan have agreed to patrol the Nimule-Juba highway where […]

Zambia’s new President Hakainde Hichilema has replaced the country’s top military commanders and the head […]

A Tunisian MP has filed a legal court against President Kais Saied for violating the […]

Liberia’s power distribution firm has lost $220m (£160m) in the last five years alone thanks […]

South Africa’s High Court has postponed for three weeks a hearing challenging the extradition back […]

Malawi ex-minister arrested over honeymoon hotel bill The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) says all three will […]

Algeria has announced it will not renew a gas-supply agreement with Morocco days after severing […]

A suspected suicide bomber has been arrested in Uganda for planning to blow up mourners […]

Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has been appointed as the Africa Union’s envoy to the […]

New Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema has tweeted that he is starting to announce his cabinet […]

Nigeria’s police chief has received a report of an investigation into suspended top officer Abba […]

Police in the Democratic Republic of Congo have arrested nearly 100 suspected users and dealers […]

Mali’s former Prime Minister Boubèye Maïga has been arrested over alleged corruption during the purchase […]

We’ve got more from UK Armed Forces minister who says there could be an “imminent, […]

The threat of a terrorist attack at Kabul airport “has existed right the way from […]

The international community must engage with the Taliban in order to avoid a humanitarian and […]

It’s incredible and very distressing to see huge numbers of people still turning up to […]

A top US diplomat has said that his country’s involvement in Afghanistan “isn’t going to […]

The Taliban is being urged to “facilitate safe passage” for Afghans wishing to leave after […]

The UK has warned the US decision to leave Afghanistan on 31 August will mean […]

France will stop evacuating people from Afghanistan from Friday evening, Prime Minister Jean Castex has […]

UK Armed Forces Minister James Heappey says the threat of terrorist attack which has prompted […]

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday that the Taliban had made a […]

A young Afghan woman has told the BBC that Taliban forces at Kabul airport are […]

A group of Afghan journalists who worked for the New York Times have arrived safely […]

US defence and military officials are holding a news conference at the Pentagon. US Army […]

US Air Force veteran Molly Mae Potter says watching the chaotic withdrawal of US troops […]

The Taliban say they’ve banned Afghans from transferring American dollars and local artefacts abroad. Speaking […]

Alice Bromage was at home on Saturday night when she got the message. She had […]

China’s President Xi Jinping has talked on the phone to Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. The […]

Alistair Burt, the UK’s Former Minister of State for the Middle East, has told the […]

The Polish government says it has stopped flights from Kabul, after completing a mission to […]

Several African presidents are heading to Zambia to attend the inauguration of the President-Elect Hakainde […]

Eritrea’s foreign ministry has rejected the US sanctions on its army chief, describing them as […]

Tunisian President Kais Saied has extended the suspension of parliament and parliamentary immunity until further […]

A joint force of Mozambican and Rwandan troops have rescued more than 100 people who […]

Kenyan civil servants are facing a deadline to get vaccinated against Covid-19 by the end […]

Trial of ex-Mozambique president’s son due to begin The trial of the eldest son of […]

A second member of an anti-corruption organisation in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been […]

Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan is being criticised online for her remarks on female footballers […]

Kenya has received 880,000 doses of Covid-19 Moderna vaccine from the US to boost its […]

A second member of an anti-corruption organisation in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been […]

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has lauded young people’s enthusiasm for Covid-19 jabs as the […]

Fifteen students have been reunited with their parents seven weeks after they were kidnapped from […]

Two survivors of the 1921 massacre of black people in the US city of Tulsa […]

A ranger from Mozambique’s Niassa special reserve has been awarded a prize for walking for […]

Health authorities in Liberia have expressed concern over the low uptake of Covid-19 vaccines among […]

At least five members of a single family including a child were killed by heavy […]

The head of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has blamed the Ethiopian government […]

Police in Uganda’s northern district of Moroto have started arresting people buying five or more […]

The head of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has welcomed a ruling by […]

The United States has offered a $5m (£3.7m) reward for information leading to the arrest […]

Eleven Malian soldiers have been killed during an ambush on a convoy in the central […]

Nigeria is to conduct a review into animal grazing rights following deadly clashes between herders […]

The Covid-19 vaccination age in South Africa has now been revised to include 18-34 year-olds. […]

The number of people who died in Wednesday’s jihadist attack on a military convoy escorting […]

The United Nations Secretary General has again called for an immediate ceasefire in the Ethiopian […]

A conservation organisation in Tanzania is still looking into the mauling of children by a […]

Algeria has decided to review its relations with Morocco, accusing its neighbour of hostile acts. […]

Two new prison directors in Mozambique have been fired just 12 days after they were […]

Ivory Coast’s President Alassane Ouattara has recovered from Covid-19 and resumed his duties on Wednesday. […]

At least 47 people, including 30 civilians, have been killed in northern Burkina Faso, in […]

The Lagos state government in Nigeria has banned street begging and has formed a special […]

Nigeria’s state-owned oil company is to be disbanded under a new law which came into […]

Spain’s national court has rejected moves by refugee rights groups to stop the government sending […]

United Nations experts have demanded the immediate release of an Eritrean journalist who has been […]

A controversial Muslim cleric accused of blasphemy has appeared in an Islamic court in Kano, […]

Ghanian-British photographer James Barnor says he is proud of his documentation of Ghana’s history. The […]

The office of the Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett says he has received an invitation […]

Recent data shows an alarming number of girls have given birth in South Africa’s Gauteng […]

More than 30 civilians were killed on Tuesday following two days of inter-communal violence in […]

Algerian authorities say they have established with “scientific and technical” evidence that separatists were involved […]

The US has sent nearly half a million doses of the Pfizer vaccine to Rwanda, White […]

Mali’s leader Col Assimi Goïta has given a short address to the nation justifying the […]

A Kenyan man is reported to have been allowed to leave Qatar after earlier being […]

At least seven people have died after heavy rains in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa. Rivers […]

The trial of former Burkina Faso president Blaise Compaoré and 13 co-accused over the 1987 […]

A Kenyan preacher based in the UK has been charged in court for selling what […]

The parliament in the Democratic Republic of Congo has voted to extend the state of […]

The UN’s migration agency has called for a “rapid expansion” of humanitarian aid and more […]

A Nigerian state governor has urged citizens to acquire weapons to defend themselves from armed […]

Officials in Niger say 37 people have been killed in a suspected Islamist attack in […]

Uganda will take in 2,000 Afghan refugees fleeing the crisis in their country. Refugees Minister […]

Soldiers are to spend another month on the streets of South Africa, after the widespread […]

More than 10,000 people have fled northern Cameroon after clashes between fishermen and herders from […]

Ivory Coast has confirmed the discovery of avian influenza cases in the south-east of the […]

Ivory Coast has begun a vaccination programme against Ebola after the country confirmed its first […]

Mozambique’s military chief has said the ongoing offensive in the restive northern region of Cabo […]

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has signed into law an oil bill first introduced in parliament […]

The World Health Organization (WHO) says the tracing of people who came into contact with […]

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the president-elect of Zambia, Hakainde Hichilema, on his victory […]

Survivors of the Tulsa massacre, one of the worst racist killings in US history, that […]

Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has announced a cash reward for all participants in the Tokyo […]

The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Felix Tshisekedi, has said US special forces […]

Nigeria’s Plateau state government has extended a curfew in the state capital Jos and surrounding […]

Gunmen have attacked an agricultural college in the north-western Nigerian state of Zamfara kidnapping a […]

Two police officers have been suspended after two brothers died in custody after their arrest […]

Zambia’s outgoing President Edgar Lungu has conceded defeat in the presidential election. “I would like […]

The Ugandan constitutional court has annulled the controversial anti-pornography law passed in 2014. The law […]

The party of Zambia’s outgoing President Edgar Lungu has congratulated opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema for […]

Media outlets affiliated to Somalia-based Islamist militant group al-Shabab have cheered the collapse of Afghanistan’s […]

Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has said he will keep pushing for peace in Ethiopia. […]

Various opposition leaders in African countries have congratulated Zambia’s President-elect Hakainde Hichilema. Mr Hichilema was […]

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni condemned what he referred to as indiscipline by the security forces […]

At least 21 people have died after their vehicle plunged into a collapsed bridge during […]

Nigeria’s President Mohammadu Buhari has gone into self-isolation on arrival from the UK. This comes […]

Cameroonian tech entrepreneur Rebecca Enonchong has been freed after three days in detention. The reasons […]

The announcement of the results at Zambia’s electoral commission has been temporarily halted, the BBC’s […]

Twelve people have died in clashes between two communities in Cameroon’s Far North region, Midjiyawa […]

Dealing with a cholera outbreak at the same time as the highly contagious Delta strain […]

The emergency services in Algeria are continuing to battle around 35 wildfires raging in a […]

A key political ally of Riek Machar has resigned dealing a blow to the South […]

The bodies of two women and four children are reported to have been found in […]

The Nigeria High commission in London has been closed after two officials tested positive for […]

Sierra Leone is dropping the last three zeros from the face of its currency, the […]

Zambia’s main opposition presidential candidate has called on the for the internet to be restored […]

South Africa is calling for more men to come out in greater numbers and take […]

Algerian journalist Rabah Kareche has been sentenced to eight months in prison for his reporting […]

Vote counting is under way in Zambia, where millions of people cast their ballots in […]

The United States is sending a special envoy to Ethiopia to urge an end to […]

Algeria’s state prosecutor has ordered an investigation into the lynching of a man suspected of […]

Top Mozambican actress, producer and director, Hermelinda Simela, has died while giving birth in hospital. […]

Ethiopia’s forces Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) says it has agreed a military alliance with Tigrayan […]

Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina has sacked his cabinet. His office gave no reason, but on […]

The office of South Sudan’s First Vice-President, Riek Machar, says he has received calls from […]

At least 52 people have died in Niger floods with 34 being injured and thousands […]

Malawi’s President Lazarus Chakwera has sacked the energy minister and his advisor who are facing […]

Voting began in Zambia’s general elections early on Thursday morning, with long queues reported in […]

Nigeria’s Information Minister Lai Mohammed has given the strongest indication yet that the government’s ban […]

Algeria has declared three days of national mourning starting from Thursday for at least 69 […]

Millions of Zambians are voting on Thursday in a presidential and parliamentary elections, held against […]

At least 33 militants were killed over the weekend in an offensive to take back […]

Tanzanian ruling party has criticised a “misleading” story published by a newspaper owned by the […]

A BBC investigation has found evidence Russian mercenaries have been operating in support of anti-government […]

Twenty-four members of the same family have died after consuming a suspected poisoned meal in […]

Two army officers in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been sentenced to life in […]

Divers in Egypt exploring the ancient sunken port city of Thonis-Heraklion have discovered the wreck […]

The UN refugee agency says it has regained access to two camps in Ethiopia’s northern […]

Zambia’s electoral commission has said all systems are in place to ensure free, transparent and […]

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa is due to appear on Wednesday morning before the country’s […]

At least 42 people are now known to have died as a result of more […]

A nationwide cholera outbreak in Nigeria has killed more than 800 people in the last […]

South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma’s corruption trial – which was due to resume on […]

Military advances against armed groups in Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province are “a very important […]

Kenyan civil servants have been given 13 days to be vaccinated against Covid or face […]

A UAE firm linked to a member of the country’s royal family has agreed to […]

Police in Uganda say they have 15 complaints on file against Turkey-based Ugandan blogger and […]

Jailed Moroccan journalist Soulaimane Roussani has ended a hunger strike after being admitted to hospital, […]

Wildfires in Algeria have left four people dead and three others injured in Kabylia, a […]

Tigray forces have denied responsibility for an attack on a health centre in the Ethiopian […]

Health officials in Guinea have confirmed West Africa’s first case of Marburg, a highly-infectious disease […]

The months-long conflict in Ethiopia faces a fresh wave of fighting as an Amhara regional […]

A UN expert has urged all armed groups in Ethiopia’s Tigray region to take steps […]

A new boss is taking over the running of Mozambique’s Ndlavela Women’s Penitentiary, where it was […]