Fighters linked to Islamic State this week raided a town less than 5 kilometers from the construction camp of the R293 billion project, which is Africa’s largest private investment

The accord “will fundamentally change the economic fortunes of our continent,” President Cyril Ramaphosa, who holds the AU’s rotating chairmanship, said in a speech on Thursday.

The United Nations and African Union on Thursday ended a 13-year mission to keep the peace in the vast Sudanese region of Darfur, even as recent violent clashes leave residents fearful of renewed fighting.

Chad has locked down its capital N'djamena for the first time since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic and has declared a dusk to dawn curfew due to a rise in infections, a decree signed by President Idriss Deby showed on Fr

Sudan's hybrid United Nations-African Union mission in Darfur is set to end its 13-year peacekeeping operations in the conflict marred region.

Egypt's public prosecution has told investigators to exclude Italian prosecutors' accusations against four Egyptian policemen on the killing of an Italian student in Cairo.

The powerful tropical storm Chalane made landfall near the central Mozambique city of Beira.

Zimbabwe has postponed the re-opening of schools planned for next week, the government says.

Uganda opposition presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, and his campaign team were arrested in the country's central region, he said on Twitter.

Landmines planted by Boko Haram jihadists have killed 11 security personnel, including four soldiers in Nigeria, security sources have said.

Zambia's President Edgar Lungu has ordered a reshuffle of the country's top police brass to facilitate a probe into the killing of two protesters.

The assault began on Tuesday morning in the town of Monjane, about 5km south of the perimeter fence of Total’s $20bn project. The development is Africa’s biggest private investment.

A massage parlour in Cario is offering snake massages.

Algeria's army has retrieved a "slice of the ransom" cash paid out to free hostages held by "terrorist groups" in the troubled Sahel region, the defence ministry has said.

Zimbabwe has banned the use of mercury in mining and placed controls on its release from industrial operations.

World Health Organisation chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has spoken of his "personal pain" about the "worsening" conflict raging in his home country of Ethiopia.

A Reuters cameraman, Kumerra Gemechu, has been arrested in Addis Ababa and will be kept in custody for at least two weeks, his family said. He has not been charged.

Two days of communal clashes in southeast Guinea have left at least 11 people dead and more than 40 wounded, officials have said.

The jihadist group Boko Haram killed at least 10 people including four security personnel in raids on three villages in northeast Nigeria, local and security sources said.

Ugandan presidential candidate and pop star Bobi Wine said one of his bodyguards was killed when police ran him over.