Eleven out of the 15 most polluted African cities, excluding those in Nigeria, are in SA, according to a report by IQAir, a Swiss air quality technology and consultancy company

A lighting bolt struck and wounded 13 male prisoners while they were having lunch at a jail in northwestern Zimbabwe, an official said.

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Zimbabwean authorities on Monday arrested nine Congolese men who allegedly slipped into the country in transit to South Africa where they intended to start new lives.

Kenyans will have to prove they are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 to access government services and public places such as national parks, bars and restaurants under new health regulations.

Kenya has launched a murder investigation into the death of a BBC staff member in a Nairobi hotel room, the city's police chief said.

Sudan's deposed prime minister and the top general who ousted him a month ago have signed a breakthrough deal to reverse the military takeover, but protests continued and a teenager was killed.

SAA has pulled its flights to Mozambique’s Maputo and lowered its expectations for Lusaka in Zambia, but its plans for Lagos are forging ahead.

Kenya will require people seeking government services to be fully vaccinated against the coronavirus from December 21 as authorities move to increase inoculation before the year-end holiday season.

Ivory Coast is probing claims its security forces raped five women during a crackdown on illegal gold mining in the country's northeast, a lawmaker and a source following the case said on Friday.

French investigative media outlet Mediapart has accused former Democratic Republic of Congo president Joseph Kabila of siphoning off $138 million in state funds while in power.

Gender activists have commended Mauritian President Prithviraj Roopun for appointing Rehana Bibi Mungly-Gulbul Chief Justice, a first for a woman to hold that position on the island.

Somalia's "rapidly worsening" drought has left more than two million people facing severe food and water shortages, the United Nations has said.

Uganda police shot dead five suspects and arrested 21 people Thursday, an official said, as part of an investigation into twin suicide bombings claimed by the Islamic State group that killed four people.

Countries in southern Africa have achieved little in stopping child labour, with children as young as five found working in livestock and crop production, and forestry and fisheries, according to a new report by the US labour department.

Kenyan police said they captured three terror inmates who had escaped from a high-security jail in a scandal that cost the country's prisons boss his job.

About 1.58 million people in Zambia will require food aid during the lean season, the period between planting and harvesting, despite a good harvest in 2021.

At least 43 people have died following raids by gunmen in Nigeria's Sokoto state this week, three times more than the initial death toll given by officials.

Libya's former Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha has registered as a presidential candidate for a planned December election that remains in doubt amid disputes over the rules.

The US has removed Nigeria from its list of countries with religious freedom concerns, just a day before Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives in the country.