The African Union announced it was suspending Mali with immediate effect and threatened the impoverished country with sanctions, after a second military coup in nine months.

The retailer operated 25 outlets in eight states across Africa’s biggest economy but had been struggling with disruptions.

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

After physical altercations and heated disputes, the Pan-African Parliament has called off its presidential election.

Tuesday saw another day of dramatic scenes at the Pan-African Parliament, as delegates could not agree on electing a president.

More than 90 percent of people in Ethiopia's war-torn Tigray region need emergency food aid, the United Nations said Tuesday, as it appealed for over $200 million to scale up its response.

Streets in the eastern DR Congo city of Goma returned to life on Tuesday, five days after residents fled following warnings that the nearby Nyiragongo volcano could erupt again.

Rwandan authorities on Monday said they had arrested a highly critical YouTuber on charges of denying the 1994 genocide, which could land him in jail for over a decade if he is found guilty.

Gunmen attacked and wounded Uganda's former army commander on Tuesday, killing his daughter and driver in an assassination attempt.

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.

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.