A Human Rights Watch (HRW) researcher was this week deported on arrival in Kigali, as relations between the organisation and the Paul Kagame regime remain strained.

Exiled former Zimbabwe Republic Police commissioner Augustine Chihuri's R130-million mansion in Harare has been snapped up by Wicknell Chivayo.

A month after the introduction of the gold-backed ZiG currency in Zimbabwe, the government has set up Gestapo-like surveillance mechanisms to catch those who reject the new money.

Ryandikayo and Charles Sikubwabo, the two last remaining fugitives wanted by an international court over the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, have been confirmed dead, prosecutors said Wednesday, more than 25 years after their demise.

Zimbabwe’s cabinet has said more than half of the nation’s population of about 15 million people will immediately need food aid until March next year, as the country reels from the impact of the El Niño weather phenomenon that’s already slashe...

Rescuers have pulled four people out of the rubble of a collapsed building in the Mathare neighbourhood of Kenya's capital on Tuesday, but more people were likely trapped, the Kenya Red Cross said.

The SADC Mission in Mozambique (SAMIM) will formally leave the oil-rich Cabo Delgado province in July, three years after being deployed and after fighting militants 67 times between August 2021 and December 2023.

Air pollution from cooking with dirty fuels contributes to 3.7 million premature deaths globally every year, according to the International Energy Agency.

In February alone, an estimated 30 million locals were cut off from the internet and telecommunications.

Zimbabwe will allow mobile money agents, once blamed for fueling the collapse of its now defunct Zimbabwean dollar, to operate again to boost the use of its new gold-backed currency.

Lesotho is again working on key constitutional reforms, seeking to bring order to the mountain kingdom's fractious politics, but there's a new hurdle: the government and part of civil society disagree on how to go about it.

Rwanda on Sunday dismissed a Burundi assertion that it armed a rebel group accused of grenade explosions that wounded dozens, heightening strained relations between the East African neighbours.

Clashes reignited between the Sudanese army and rival paramilitaries earlier this week in the key Darfur town of el-Fasher, the United Nations said Sunday, killing at least 27 people in one day.

On a three-day visit to Nigeria to promote his Invictus Games, Prince Harry on Saturday played a seated volleyball match with army veterans, most wounded in battle against the country's Islamist insurgency.

Mozambique's army is fighting Islamist insurgents who launched a major attack on the northern town of Macomia on Friday morning, President Filipe Nyusi said in a televised address.

Islamic State-linked insurgents attacked the town of Macomia in Mozambique’s gas-rich Cabo Delgado province, according to people with knowledge of the matter, in what is their boldest raid in more than three years.

Chadian soldiers deployed on Friday in large numbers across several districts of the capital after late-night celebrations marked the presidential election victory of junta leader General Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno.

African heads of state meeting in Kenya on Thursday vowed to triple production and distribution of certified-quality organic and inorganic fertilisers by 2034.

Somalia's government has requested the termination of a UN mission that has advised it on peace-building, security reforms and democracy for over a decade.

A Boeing passenger plane came off the runway during takeoff from Dakar international airport early Thursday, injuring 11 people and shutting the hub for hours, its operator said.