Fears of looting are gripping the eastern DR Congo city of Goma, whose inhabitants fled last week after warnings that the dreaded Mount Nyiragongo volcano could be on the verge of a catastrophic second eruption.

Somalia's breakaway Somaliland region held its first parliamentary election for 16 years on Monday, in what politicians there describe as evidence of its comparative stability.

News24 has appointed seasoned journalist Lynsey Chutel to head up its Africa desk.

The Pan-African Parliament in Midrand was the scene of more chaos as members argued about how to vote for a new president.

Streets in southeast Nigeria were deserted on Monday as the former separatist region commemorated the more than one million people who died in the Biafra war and famine half a century ago.

The Pan-African Parliament will vote for a new president on Monday, with a threat from Julius Malema hanging over the session.

At least 39 people have been killed in two new attacks in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, monitors have said, as a local official blamed a notorious group linked to the Islamic State group.

Chad's government on Monday accused the Central African Republic of killing six of its soldiers in an attack on an outpost in the south of the country, branding it a "war crime" that would "not go unpunished".

Burkina Faso has received its first shipment under the global vaccine-sharing scheme Covax, the health ministry has announced.

Kidnappers abducted students in an attack on a school in the north-central Nigerian state of Niger, a state government official said on Sunday.

Two days after Mount Nyiragongo erupted, out of the volcano's direct path Hadidja Dusengimana felt a powerful tremor and a sound "like a landmine" rippling through her home in Gisenyi.

Kenya has extended its nightly curfew by 60 days to slow the spread of Covid-19, the Interior Ministry said on Sunday.

Four civilians and a police officer were killed on Sunday by suspected jihadists in southern Mali, a region that has previously been mostly spared from the country's Islamist unrest, a security official said.

Six people were killed, including a woman who was burned alive, during an attack blamed on the regional militia group ADF in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

The pandemic slowed for the fourth week in a row around the world, led by an improvement in Europe, despite a worrying increase in cases in the United Kingdom.

The novel coronavirus has killed at least 3 513 088 people since the outbreak emerged in China in December 2019, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP.

President Cyril Ramaphosa will host President Emmanuel Macron at the Union Buildings, before the two hold a seminar on Covid-19 vaccines at the University of Pretoria. This is Macron’s first visit to South Africa, his second top on a two-country to...

Germany has apologised for its role in the slaughter of Herero and Nama tribespeople in Namibia more than a century ago, and officially described the massacre as genocide for the first time, as it agreed to fund projects worth over a billion euros.

Namibia says Germany has agreed to fund projects worth 1.1 billion euros over 30 years to atone for its role in genocide and property seizures in its-then colony more than a century ago, Namibian media reported.

President Cyril Ramphosa travelled to Maputo to meet with leaders from Botswana, Zimbabwe, Malawi and Tanzania to discuss the violence in Mozambique.