The eSwatini government has denied reports that the king fled after protests erupted in the country.

Zimbabwe faces prolonged power outages after a surge in electricity imports from neighboring South Africa overloaded its network and caused generating plants to fail, Energy Minister Soda Zhemu said.

The Algerian coastguard has seized almost half a ton of cocaine after fishermen alerted authorities to "suspicious" items floating off the northwest coast, a defence ministry statement said.

Tanzania will spend $470 million buying vaccines and supporting economic sectors hit hard by the coronavirus, President Samia Suluhu Hassan said.

Nigeria is adding South Africa to its "red list" of countries for which there are stringent restrictions for arriving passengers, officials said during a briefing.

Zimbabwe will allow a drug usually dispensed to treat parasite infections in humans and livestock to be used in the treatment of Covid-19 patients only for research, the health regulator said Monday.

The eastern DR Congo city of Beni closed its schools, markets and churches for 48 hours after three bomb attacks over the weekend sparked fears of further violence.

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

Two suspects were charged with murder and attempted murder on Monday over an assassination attempt on a Ugandan government minister in which the minister was wounded and his daughter and driver were killed.

With six months until Libyan elections, the country’s ethnic minorities risk being overlooked in the electoral process.

The city of Beni woke up to a curfew on Monday after three bombs rocked the conflict-plagued east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, with authorities warning they had reports more attacks were being planned.

At least 15 people were burnt alive or shot dead in a horrific attack in central Burundi after armed men blocked off a road and started killing travellers, security sources said on Sunday.

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi arrived in Baghdad on Sunday, marking the first visit by an Egyptian head of state to Iraq since Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990.

Al-Shabaab jihadists killed at least 12 people Sunday in a raid on a town and military base in central Somalia, the army and local officials said.

The gas subsidiaries of South Africa and Mozambique’s state energy companies, which together with Sasol own a 865km gas pipeline running between the countries, are exercising their right to buy 30% of the petrochemical company’s stake in the proj...

A makeshift bomb exploded inside a Catholic church in the city of Beni in the DR Congo's conflict-plagued east on Sunday, injuring two just an hour before a children's Confirmation ceremony was due to be held.

At least 20 African countries are in the midst of third wave of Covid-19 infections, with South Africa accounting of 35% of all new cases on the continent.

Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi vowed Friday to root out Islamic State-linked militants in the north of the country with the help of regional allies that are set to contribute ground forces.

Worldwide, NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens), which serve as a unique identifier, have reassured collectors when buying online art and propelled digital artists to stardom.

David Brown, chief executive officer of Zimbabwe’s Kuvimba Mining House, intends to step down, jeopardizing the future of the company the government hopes will spur an economic revival.