Sudan's agriculture minister said there is no famine in the country.

With new roads, villas for delegates, luxury coaches, new trees, and above all a call for a demonstration-free week, Zimbabwe is pulling out all stops to host the 44th ordinary SADC summit of heads of state and government in mid-August.

A HIV vaccine test cancelled in November last year saw significantly higher rates of infection among those who received the shot compared to a placebo group, results made public this week show.

Kenyan President William Ruto on Wednesday nominated four members of the main opposition party to a "broad-based" cabinet he promised in response to nationwide protests, but activists criticised the new government as a corrupt bar

Only 52% of children living with HIV were on life-saving treatment in 2023, with sub-Saharan Africa doing particularly poorly.

Only two African countries, South Africa and Senegal, will be getting money from a giant Open Society Foundations green energy fund later this year, in part thanks to governments that have shown dedication in dealing with climate change.

The death toll from two landslides in southern Ethiopia has risen sharply to 229 and the number could increase further, a government official said on Tuesday.

Support for democracy in South Africa and Mali drastically went down this year compared to 39 African countries, according to a new Afrobarometer survey.

The United States announced more than $200 million in new aid Thursday for civilians affected by the war in Sudan, including refugees who have fled to neighboring countries.

Kenya's government on Thursday ratcheted up its appeal for weeks of protests to stop and police tried to ban demonstrations in the heart of the capital Nairobi only to be overruled in court.

According to an official estimate, about 25% of people in rural Zimbabwe do not have access to toilets, and almost no rural toilets have water for hand washing.

Rwanda's all-powerful President Paul Kagame has been re-elected to a fourth term in office with 99.18 percent of the vote, according to full provisional results published Thursday.

Kenyan President William Ruto named Wednesday his foreign minister as "acting cabinet secretary" for all ministries, nearly a week after dismissing almost his entire cabinet in an attempt to defuse deadly anti-government rallies.

In two different African countries, journalists came under direct attack this week.

Egypt will halt load shedding power cuts during the summer as of Sunday, after some natural gas shipments arrived, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly said on Wednesday, in a bid to end a crisis that inconvenienced a population of 106 million.

Rwanda's long-time president drew another record-breaking share of the vote, but his parliamentarians fared a lot worse.

The body of Burundi's former president Pierre Buyoya was repatriated to his home country on Tuesday, more than three years after he was buried thousands of kilometres away in Mali.

Kenyan police said they arrested a suspected serial killer who confessed to murdering 42 women, including his wife, and discarding their dismembered bodies in a Nairobi rubbish dump.

The Gambian legislature has upheld its ban on female genital mutilation, despite heavy lobbying from conservative and religious groups.

A court in Eswatini sentenced two pro-democracy lawmakers to 25 and 18 years in jail on Monday for "terrorism" and murder related to 2021 protests in Africa's last absolute monarchy.