Around 300 protesters stormed Namibia's parliament, as the National Assembly was due to vote on a $1 billion compensation offer from Germany to atone for its genocide against the Herero and Nama people.

New report shows how Covid-19 has had a disproportionate socioeconomic impact on Africa’s most populous country.

Egypt's Mohammed Hussein Tantawi, who headed the military junta that ruled after president Hosni Mubarak's ouster in the Arab Spring protests, has died at age 85.

Sudan's fragile transitional government has said it foiled an attempted coup involving military officers and civilians linked to the ousted regime of long-time president Omar al-Bashir.

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In a bid to drum up investor appetite for rough, natural diamonds, mining company Lucara Diamond Corp and manufacturer HB Antwerp have unveiled a 1 175-carat diamond in New York City.

The cuts followed disruptions to supply chains, continuing supply and demand shocks, and a drop in consumer confidence.

About 15 soldiers and several civilians have died in two attacks in English-speaking western areas of Cameroon in the grip of a breakaway campaign.

Cholera has killed more than 2 300 people and infected thousands more, mostly children, in Nigeria since the start of the year.

Aid has reached Mozambique's northern coastal town of Palma for the first time since it was overrun by jihadists in March.

Four Malian soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in the centre of the country early, the military said, in the latest attack in the war-torn Sahel state.

At least two people have been killed and a number of others were wounded after a grenade exploded in a bar in Burundi's capital Gitega on Sunday evening, according to a police source.

A Rwandan court has said Paul Rusesabagina, a one-time hotel manager portrayed as a hero in a Hollywood film about the 1994 genocide, was guilty of terrorism-related charges.

Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial hub, plans to give Covid-19 shots to 30% of residents within a year, the state’s governor said in an emailed statement.

Djibouti President Ismael Omar Guelleh has returned home to the Horn of Africa country, his office said Sunday, after rumours that the 73-year-old had been hospitalised in Paris.

East Libyan forces said they lost two helicopters in a crash during a military operation on Sunday, after days of fighting with a formerly allied rebel group from Chad.

Professor Timiebi Aganaba spoke to Insider about the key factors that will likely make Africa a significant player in the new space age.

A rebel group has claimed a series of mortar attacks launched overnight on the airport of Bujumbura, Burundi's economic capital, a day before President Evariste Ndayishimiye was due to fly out for the UN General Assembly in New York.

Algeria on Sunday buried Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the North African country's longest-serving president, at a cemetery for its independence heroes, but without the honours accorded to his predecessors.

Gunmen who kidnapped more than 100 students from a high school in northwest Nigeria months ago have released 10 more of the hostages, the head of a parents association said on Sunday.