Southern African leaders will meet in Maputo for the day-long summit, against the backdrop of an insurgency regional leaders have labelled as 'terrorism'.

Zimbabwe expects to receive 2.5 million Covid-19 vaccines from China by the end of this month.

Fifteen Nigerian hostages have escaped from their abductors as they slept, weeks after they were among more than 130 pupils and teachers snatched by gunmen from an Islamic seminary, the school's headteacher told AFP Tuesday.

The World Bank will partner with the African Union to help accelerate coronavirus vaccinations on the continent.

Egyptian TikTok influencer Haneen Hossam will appeal a 10-year prison sentence handed down by a Cairo court that found her guilty of human trafficking, her lawyer has said.

President Cyril Ramaphosa urged developed economies to aid Africa’s post-pandemic recovery by allocating more International Monetary Fund (IMF) reserves to the continent.

At war with the politically powerful Tigray People's Liberation Front, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has also alienated and cracked down on Oromo parties, stoking further ethnic division in the country.

The Southern African Development Community will hold an extraordinary summit this week, with terrorism on the agenda.

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

Zambia's founding president Kenneth Kaunda will be buried on July 7, three weeks after he died aged 97, the presidency announced on Monday.

The Chad government has accused the Central African Republic of killing six of its soldiers in an attack on an outpost in the south of the country.

Ethiopians vote in national and regional elections that the prime minister has billed as proof of his commitment to democracy after decades of repressive rule.

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.