Two explosions hit Uganda's capital Kampala on Tuesday, injuring a number of people in what police termed an attack on the city, the latest in a string of blasts targeting the country.

Half of the World Food Program drivers who were arrested last week in Ethiopia's conflict-torn north have been released, a UN spokesperson has said.

The 'Meet and Greet the President' fundraising dinner at Mulungushi International Conference Centre on Saturday night was hosted by the United Party for National Development.

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A vigilante group killed at least five people in an apparent reprisal attack in the volatile east of the DR Congo overnight, a military spokesman said.

Elders from several cities have called for a boycott of presidential elections and protesters shut voting stations in western Libya after former dictator Moamer Kadhafi's son registered to run.

Kenyan police say that three terrorists escaped from the country's highest security prison, including a "dangerous" inmate serving 41 years over an attack that killed 148 people.

Four Kenyan policemen have been found guilty of manslaughter in the death of Alexander Monson.

General Labour Union says Tunisia’s suspended parliament should not be reinstated, calls for new legislative elections.

African Union (AU) member states have been blamed for putting politics ahead of human rights as the last African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) session of the year gets under way in Banjul, Gambia.

Four Malian soldiers were killed by suspected jihadists Sunday and several others wounded in an attack northeast of the capital Bamako, near the border with Mauritania, the army said on social media.

Tanzania's central bank has placed a 10-year limit on the tenure of chief executives officers of banks and banned elected officials from serving on the boards of financial institutions.

The African Union's special envoy for the Horn of Africa, Olusegun Obasanjo, remains hopeful that dialogue can end Ethiopia's year-long war, but warned in a statement released Sunday that "such talks cannot deliver" without an immediate ceasefire.

Sudanese security forces have arrested the bureau chief of Qatari-based Al Jazeera TV, the network said on Sunday, a day after the latest crackdown on anti-coup protesters left at least six dead.

Seif al-Islam Kadhafi, son of slain Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi, registered Sunday to run in December presidential polls seen as crucial to helping the country turn a page on a decade of conflict.

Villagers searched for bodies in Democratic Republic of Congo's Lake Kivu on Friday after a passenger boat capsized https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/two-drowned-dozens-feared-missing-after-bo

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has sacked his finance minister and his interior minister, without giving reasons for the changes, state television and his press secretary said late on Friday.

A policeman has been arrested for killing an eight-year-old girl in the Cameroonian city of Bamenda on Friday, as he shot after a car that had escaped a checkpoint, the government said.

A wildlife nature reserve covering Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Angola will undertake a loose elephant census next year at a cost of US$3 million.

The Indian Ocean island paradise of Mauritius imposed a raft of new Covid-19 curbs on Friday as it confronted an upsurge in cases despite a high vaccination rate.