Six people died after sneaking into a goldmine in Burkina Faso, police said, leading to angry scenes in which the mine was vandalised and vehicles were torched.

Six Kenyan police officers have been charged with murder over the deaths in custody of two brothers arrested for allegedly breaking a Covid curfew.

Most African countries are set to miss the "crucial" goal of vaccinating the most vulnerable ten percent of their populations against Covid-19 by the end of the month, the World Health Organisation warned.

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The United States will begin shipping more than 2 million doses of Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine to Kenya and Ghana on Wednesday through the Covax global distribution program, a White House official said.

A popular Rwandan rapper known as Jay Polly died in custody early on Thursday, officials and media reports said, the second detained musician to die in mysterious circumstances in less than two years.

A large group of children were feared to have been kidnapped from a school in the north western Nigerian state of Zamfara.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari sacked the ministers for power and agriculture in a rare cabinet reshuffle, citing the need to improve economic management.

Rwanda's President Paul Kagame has removed the justice minister but made him ambassador to Britain amid international scrutiny over the trial of Paul Rusesabagina.

Lions and cheetahs are closer to extinction than the authoritative Red List of Threatened Species suggests, according to conservation scientists who warn that sharp drops in populations could be going undetected.

A man has been trampled to death by an elephant in Zimbabwe while taking a selfie, according to reports. The elephant was reportedly later put down by the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority.

Deutsche Bank has cut correspondent banking ties with Standard Bank Group’s Zimbabwean unit, dealing a body-blow to one of the few remaining international banking providers operational in the southern African nation.

At least 17 people, including a soldier and aid worker, were killed in the latest attacks by Islamic State-aligned jihadists in northeast Nigeria's Borno state.

A TV channel in Ivory Coast has apologised after airing a show in which a man presented as an ex-rapist showed how he assaulted his victims using a dummy for the demonstration.

Two southern Nigerian states are trying to introduce Covid-19 vaccine passes for access to public places and gatherings, in a bid to increase vaccination rates.

The leader of Tanzania's main opposition party has appeared in the High Court to face terrorism charges in a case described by his party as a politically-motivated move to crush dissent.

A prominent Kenyan pathologist has warned of “vaccine apartheid” in Africa amid the slow rollout of Covid-19 jabs. In Africa, less than 2 percent of its 1.3 billion people are fully vaccinated against Covid-19.

The son of Mozambique's ex-president Armando Guebuza has denied allegations he took bribes to facilitate a $2 billion secret government loan that plunged the southern African country into financial crisis.

Shares of MTN Group's Ghanaian unit have almost doubled this year, helping the nation’s main stock index become Africa’s best-performing equity benchmark.

Liberal party leader Nabil Karoui, runner-up in Tunisia's 2019 presidential election that saw Kais Saied elected, has been arrested in Algeria along with his MP brother.