Ethiopia is developing its own social media platforms to rival US-owned sites such as Facebook and Twitter, the country's intelligence and cybersecurity agency has said.

Zimbabwe’s state electricity company is awaiting the outcome of international arbitration in a currency dispute with the country’s biggest private power producer that’s holding up other investments.

A DR Congo soldier accused of attempted rape shot dead the father of his victim, as well as three other people, before being killed himself by the security forces, local police said.

Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan has come under fire for remarks about women footballers having "flat chests" and suggesting they would not be attractive candidates for marriage.

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The justice and correctional services ministry says Manuel Manuel Chang will be extradited to Maputo to face charges linked to Mozambique’s largest corruption scandal.

The largest corruption trial in Mozambican history is too big for a courtroom and is being held in a tent.

A Belgian lawyer for the man whose story inspired the film "Hotel Rwanda", who is being tried on terrorism charges, has been deported for working without a permit, the head of Rwanda's immigration service said.

Egypt is to close the Rafah crossing on its border with the Gaza Strip until further notice, Egyptian security sources have announced.

Bandits have released 15 more students kidnapped last month from a Baptist school in northwest Nigeria, officials have told Reuters.

An attack by suspected jihadists on a village in western Niger's troubled "three-border" region has killed 19 people and injured two, the Nigerien interior ministry has said.

Chad has said it will recall 600 troops, half its contingent, from the multinational G5 Sahel force in the troubled three-borders region of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, where an upsurge in jihadist violence has cost thousands of lives.

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.

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.