Zimbabwe is to open talks about compensation for victims of a notorious 1980s massacre that took place when former president Robert Mugabe was in power.

The International Air Transport Association says a number of countries are preventing nearly $1 billion of airline revenues from being repatriated.

Zimbabwean authorities on Friday charged a man with murder after his 14-year-old wife died at a religious shrine last month of complications due to childbirth.

Only 2% of Africa's population have been fully vaccinated, WHO Africa Director Dr Matshidiso Moeti said Thursday.

Watch all the latest news videos from around Africa

The Ugandan government says it had ordered 54 non-governmental organisations to suspend operations, a major escalation of its efforts to tighten control over civil society.

Invasive species introduced by human activity are costing African agriculture some R992 billion every year — around 2.5% of the continent's gross domestic product — research showed on Thursday.

West Africa is fighting multiple virus outbreaks and its health systems are taking strain.

The novel coronavirus has killed at least 4 392 364 people since the outbreak emerged in China in December 2019, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP.

Dozens of people have been killed in northern Burkina Faso after Islamist militants raided a civilian convoy that was being escorted by military police, the latest in a spate of attacks across West Africa's Sahel region this month.

Eswatini was a glaring omission, but Rwanda's deployment to Mozambique was the "elephant in the room".

South Africa played a "central role" in lobbying the SADC’s 16 member states to issue a collective condemnation of the African Union’s “unilateral” decision.

The Presidency issued a statement on Tuesday to congratulate Zambia's new president, Hakainde Hichilema, on behalf of South Africa.

The UN health agency said Tuesday that a second suspected case of infection by the deadly Ebola virus has been detected in Ivory Coast, expressing fear of contagion.

Zambian president-elect Hakainde Hichilema has slammed the southern African country's outgoing 'brutal regime' while promising a 'better democracy' in his debut address to the nation, hours after winning the top job in a landslide.

The United States is sending nearly half a million doses of Pfizer Inc's Covid-19 vaccine to Rwanda.

Zambian business tycoon Hakainde Hichilema, the veteran opposition politician who made six bids for the country's presidency before finally landing the top job in a landslide, has described himself as just an ordinary "cattle boy".

Ivory Coast begin vaccinating health workers in the commercial capital Abidjan against Ebola on Monday after a case of the deadly virus was confirmed over the weekend.

After losing by nearly a million votes, outgoing President Edgar Lungu shifted his earlier tone and congratulated his opponent.

Facebook, MTN and China Mobile are planning to build a giant sub-sea cable, which will deliver more than the combined capacity of all sub-sea cables that are currently serving Africa.