Terrorist groups in Africa have killed and displaced thousands of people, and France has taken the lead among foreign powers trying to combat them.

The top UN court has ruled largely in favour of Somalia in its dispute with Kenya, setting a sea boundary in part of the Indian Ocean believed to be rich in oil and gas.

Botswana's Court of Appeal has started hearing a government attempt to overturn a landmark ruling that decriminalised homosexuality.

The novel coronavirus has killed at least 4 853 570 people since the outbreak emerged in China in December 2019, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP.

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Pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer have said low vaccine uptake in Africa is due to increasing hesitancy on the continent. But the truth is inequitable distribution of Covid vaccines have left Africa as a vaccine desert, write Tian Johnson, Tom Mou...

Nigerian police in Lagos have warned against any protests planned to mark the anniversary of the mass #EndSARS rallies that rocked Africa's most populous country a year ago.

Soldiers and police have been deployed across schools in Eswatini where students have been protesting for weeks demanding political reforms, pro-democracy groups said.

A convoy carrying Zimbabwe's main opposition leader was attacked by suspected ruling party supporters, his party said.

Tunisia's President Kais Saied has appointed a new government, 11 weeks after firing the last one in a controversial power grab.

Egyptian authorities arrested three people accused of dumping thousands of unused Covid-19 vaccine jabs found last week in a water drain in a southern city, the public prosecution said.

Lebanon's electricity grid was back online Sunday after the army supplied fuel to two key power stations that had run out, a minister said, ending almost a day of total blackout.

A Franciscan nun from Colombia kidnapped by jihadists in Mali more than four years ago has been freed, Mali's presidency said.

At least 20 people have been killed in Nigeria’s Sokoto state when gunmen attacked a market and torched cars, according to a state official and local member of parliament.

Dubbed Africa's Che Guevara, Thomas Sankara wanted to "decolonise minds" in Burkina Faso and across the continent, but his revolutionary dreams were cut short when he was gunned down in a 1987 coup after just four years in power.

Five more students who were kidnapped by gunmen from a school in Nigeria three months ago have been released after ransoms were paid, the school administrator said.

A case of Ebola has been confirmed in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the health minister said on Friday, five months after the end of the most recent outbreak there.

Torrential rains cause rivers to flow, deluging home and farms in eight of the country’s 10 states, UN agency says.

Scrawled onto a cement gravestone in the village of Tchombangou is the date when the calm of the remote community in southwest Niger was shattered: Friday, 22 November, 2019.

Africa and France have a complicated history and a dark history in many ways. Ambassador of France to South Africa, Aurélien Lechevallier writes that to truly move forward, there needs to be an open discussion of the raw, complex issues, which have ...