Botswana has more than 200 billion tons of untapped coal reserves and is developing six new coal mines. With banks shying away from the industry, the country has turned to investors from the largest global coal consumer - China

Two former Ivory Coast presidents and longterm political rivals, Laurent Gbagbo and Henri Konan Bedie, on Sunday said they were uniting in opposition to current head of state Allasane Ouattara.

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's Prosperity Party won the most seats in Ethiopia's parliamentary election, the election board said.

A suicide car bomb targeting a government convoy exploded at a busy junction in Somalia's capital, killing at least eight people, an eyewitness told Reuters.

Militants killed at least 45 people in an attack on the town of Faru in north west Nigeria, residents and a hospital worker said.

Rwanda deployed 1 000 troops to Mozambique’s troubled north, while southern African leaders are still discussing the deployment of a Standby Force.

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

Seven UN peacekeepers have been injured when their vehicle hit an improvised explosive device in central Mali, the United Nations peacekeeping mission announced.

Construction of a new plant in Senegal to manufacture Covid-19 vaccines is expected to begin later this year, and the facility should produce 25 million doses per month by the end of 2022, the financers of the project said on Friday.

Niger and the state of Borno in neighbouring Nigeria have struck a deal for the return this year of more than 130 000 Nigerian refugees, Niger's president Mohamed Bazoum said on Friday.

Economic Freedom Fighters of Swaziland members claim that eSwatini police fired on them as they tried to join a march near the Oshoek Ngwenya border post.

President Salva Kiir pledged on Friday pledged not to return South Sudan to war as the country marked 10 years of troubled independence with little to rejoice.

Africa has just lived through its most devastating week of the pandemic, but the worst is yet to come as the third wave gathers pace on the continent.

Tunisia's health system has "collapsed" under the weight of the Covid-19 pandemic, the health ministry spokeswoman said.

Zimbabwe received 2 million Covid-19 vaccines from China's Sinovac on Thursday, its single largest shipment that it hopes will boost a vaccination campaign that had been slowed by shortages while infections and deaths rise.

After a diplomat note was leaked to the media, the United States Embassy in Eswatini confirmed that soldiers fired on a diplomatic vehicle.

Zimbabwe's army commander died early on Thursday after succumbing to cancer, the presidential spokesman said.

In July 2011, Nunu Diana smiled through tears as South Sudan gained independence, envisioning the future for her homeland: a great nation, peaceful and prosperous, brimming with hope and opportunity.

The 400-metre-long container ship will be seen off on Wednesday in a ceremony attended by dignitaries, diplomats and company officials from around the world.

The Eswatini government has shifted toward releasing more information on the protests, but activists continue to dispute the state’s account.