South African troops have been deployed as part of the Southern African Development Community’s Standby Force to combat terrorism in Cabo Delgado.

Judith is 14, sings in her church choir, dreams of becoming a lawyer and likes nothing more than offering her hairstyling skills to her neighbours.

The leader of Tanzania's main opposition party Chadema and other members were arrested early Wednesday, the party said, ahead of a planned conference to demand constitutional reform.

One hundred kidnapped villagers in northwest Nigeria were freed Tuesday, police said, following negotiations with their abductors who had held them hostage for 42 days.

Tunisia's Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi has sacked Health Minister Faouzi Mehdi, Mechichi's office said, amid spiralling coronavirus cases in the North African country.

Namibia concerned over food and medical supplies, reassess its dependence on South African exports.

Mali's interim President Assimi Goita was the target of an attempted stabbing attack during Eid al-Adha prayers at Bamako's Grand Mosque.

A warning in Zimbabwe that people will face restrictions if they are not fully immunised against Covid-19 sparked a rush to vaccination sites struggling to meet surging demand.

Heavily-armed criminals have shot down a fighter jet in Nigeria's north west Zamfara state, the air force said, adding that the pilot had safely ejected and evaded capture.

Military intervention in Tunisia, a fast-filling cemetery in Namibia, a harsh lockdown in Uganda, and campaign rallies in Zambia.

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Three Chinese nationals and two Mauritanians were kidnapped in southwest Mali on Saturday, the country's armed forces said, in the latest attack in the war-torn Sahel state.

In his first public appearance since riots, King Mswati blamed protesters for the killing of civilians and slammed activists.

Nigeria’s Federal Inland Revenue Service says the decision to freeze MultiChoice accounts was as a result of the group’s under-remittance of taxes and continued refusal to grant the authority access to its servers for audit.

Senegal's President Macky Sall threatened on Friday to close the borders and re-impose a state of emergency after the country registered a new record number of daily Covid-19 cases for the third time in a week.

The five months that two transgender women in Cameroon spent in prison were "hell", one of them told Reuters on Friday after they were released, describing how they were initially forced to sleep with chains around their legs.

Security forces fired at protesters in eSwatini, while the king held a dialogue at his royal residence.

Despite calls for a more representative democracy, King Mswati III has announced the appointment of a new prime minister.

Deaths rose from 4 348 deaths in the first week of July, to 6 273, for the week ending 11 July.

The Southern African Development Community's Standby Force was supposed to be deployed to Mozambique on Thursday, but unrest in South Africa may have prevented this.