The richest people in Africa trace their fortunes to resources such as diamonds and oil, but several have significant interests in telecoms and media.

Google parent company Alphabet has shut down Loon, which produces solar-powered balloons that bring internet to remote areas.

Eswatini has signed up to the Clean Network initiative, a Trump administration attempt to block the use of 5G equipment from Chinese manufacturers it considers a security risk.

There will be no flights into Maseru until at least 27 January – and land border posts are closed to all but specific types of users on the South African side.

Another border crisis is developing, this time between South Africa and Mozambique at the Lebombo post.

The relative of an ICU patient claimed that people were dying because the hospital ran out of oxygen, the Associated Press reported.

The country of 1.3 million people hopes a R200 million budget will stretch to fully vaccinate every citizen against Covid-19, after it gets a fifth of what it needs for free.

Zimbabwe is experiencing a second wave of Covid-19 infections and has enforced a harsh lockdown to limit transmissions.

Nigeria is the latest country to enforce tighter regulations on South African visitors.

All mobile operators in Nigeria have been ordered to link the ID numbers of their subscribers to their SIM cards on a national database.

At least 156 plants were given names this year, but the most memorable is likely the one that scientists are calling "the world's ugliest orchid."

Seeking protection for biltong as a geographically indicated (GI) product could lock out foreign competitors, but biltong's history could make that tricky.

NBC News spoke with current and former Uber drivers in Kenya who say they fell into debt after believing the company's promises of financial success.

Saqqara, an ancient Egyptian city of the dead, has yielded countless mummies. The walls of some tombs have threatening curses inscribed on them.

Saddam Al-Kilany, 29, beat the world record of 142 hours and 47 minutes reached by Turkish diver Cem Karabay in 2016.

Prince Kunle and Princess Keisha of Nigeria are now planning their royal wedding — 14 years after they got married.

The R4 billion building of 16,000m2 - known as JB4 - will house servers and other equipment.