Four southern African nations are considering breaking away from the United Nations’ Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species to set up a parallel organization to allow trade in ivory.

A member of the Uganda Olympic team has tested positive for coronavirus on arrival in Japan, just over a month before the pandemic-postponed Games, officials said.

Plastic surgeons in South Africa are preparing to reconstruct the face of a nine-year-old Zimbabwean boy mauled by a hyena in an attack last month.

Police in Eswatini have clashed with a rural demonstration demanding democratic reforms in Africa's last absolute monarchy, an AFP reporter has said.

Namibia is seeking developers to build a 25 megawatt solar-power facility to source energy for its capital, Windhoek.

Delays in coronavirus vaccine shipments to Malawi have caused health facilities to run out of doses as hundreds are due to receive a second shot, the health minister said.

An Ebola outbreak which started in southeast Guinea in February, infecting 16 people and killing 12, has been declared over, the health ministry and the World Health Organisation said.

Prosecutors in Rwanda on Thursday sought a life sentence for "Hotel Rwanda" hero and government critic Paul Rusesabagina, who is charged with terrorism in a trial denounced as political by his supporters.

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

Ethiopia has projected power in the Horn of Africa for centuries, remaining fiercely independent as the rest of the region fell to colonial rule, and warring with neighbours to defend its vast realm.

The World Health Organization voiced alarm at surging Covid-19 cases across Africa, with the spread of new more contagious variants even as vaccination rates remain dangerously low.

MAIDUGURI/ABUJA, June 18 - A senior cleric with Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram confirmed the death of its leader and urged fighters to stay loyal in its fight against rival Islamic State militants, according to a video seen by Reuters on Friday.

Ethiopia has been beset by unrest since the unbanning of opposition and rebel groups stoked political fragmentation and long-suppressed rivalries among rival ethnic groups.

Several beheadings, including of teenagers, have been reported around the restive northern Mozambique town of Palma since it was attacked by militants in March, a charity and local sources said.

President Cyril Ramaphosa, political leaders and parties have paid tribute to Zambia’s founding president Kenneth Kaunda.

Kenya raised $1 billion in its first Eurobond sale in two years as the East African nation balances between the need to fund its economic recovery and lower its debt burden.

Civilians in the Central African Republic told investigators they were indiscriminately shot at by Russian private security contractors.

Gunmen have killed a police officer and kidnapped at least 80 students and five teachers from a school in the Nigerian state of Kebbi, police, residents and a teacher have said.

Former president Thabo Mbeki recalled personal anecdotes of late former Zambian president Kenneth Kaunda’s generosity and support for the ANC.

Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia's first post-colonial president, in key dates.