British NGO Global Witness Wednesday urged the Democratic Republic of Congo to halt a dam project it said would flood part of a national park and be an "ecological catastrophe".

Health systems on the African continent have been severely impacted by the pressures of Covid-19.

At least five people dead as police officer goes on rampage in Nairobi with his service-issued AK-47 rifle.

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After more than 80 weeks of closure, questions loom over the effect of the shutdown on students and teachers.

There is nothing glamorous about being a YouTuber in Rwanda, says John Williams Ntwali, whose channel Pax TV is a year old. The pay is poor, the threats frequent and the risk of prison all too real.

Vaccine alliance GAVI has announced the launch of a full-scale malaria vaccination programme.

Healthcare disruptions linked to the coronavirus pandemic helped malaria kill 69,000 more people in 2020 than the previous year, but a worst-case scenario was averted, the World Health Organization said on Monday.

Ethiopia's government said on Monday it had recaptured two strategic towns from rebel fighters, the latest in a rapid series of battlefield victories claimed by forces loyal to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.

James Owino, the lead researcher in a report titled "Durable solutions to migration challenges in East and the Horn", talks to News24 about the youth bulge and conflict.

A Zimbabwe court on Monday dropped a case against investigative journalist and government critic Hopewell Chin'ono, charged with inciting public violence last year for supporting banned demonstrations on Twitter.

Some Internally Displaced People in Mozambique's Palma district survive by eating grass, wild fruits, and tubers as hunger takes its toll in the conflict-torn area.

Nigeria on Monday criticised Britain's decision to add the country to a travel "red list" due to coronavirus concerns as unjust and not driven by science.

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Gambian President Adama Barrow has comfortably won re-election, the electoral commission said on Sunday, though he may face a legal challenge from opposition candidates who rejected the results because of unspecified irregularities.

Africa has little chance of overcoming the Covid-19 pandemic unless 70% of its population is vaccinated by end-2022, yet "extreme vaccine discrimination" is leaving the continent behind, a report published on Monday said.

Divers recovered seven more bodies Sunday from a bus that was swept off a bridge by a flooding river in Kenya, bringing the death toll from the tragedy to more than 30.

A trial will begin on Monday in Madagascar for 21 people accused of planning a coup d'etat, including two French men and their wives.

Gambians were waiting on Sunday to find out the winner of the first presidential election in the tiny West African nation.

Sudan's top general Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has said there are "positive indicators" that measures taken against his country following a military takeover could be lifted.