MTN's Nigerian unit has been awarded a 5G licence in Africa's most populous country, paving the way for the continent's largest wireless carrier to supply faster internet to consumers and businesses.

A group of Senegalese lawmakers has drafted a law that would tighten already repressive laws against same-sex relations.

South Africa withdrew a circular that prompted banks to threaten to close the accounts of a category of Zimbabwean immigrants who have a permit to live and work in the country from 1 January next year.

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Democratic Republic of Congo's president Felix Tshisekedi said he will ensure that Ugandan troops' presence in Congo, where they are fighting an Islamist militant group alongside Congolese forces, is for a strictly limited period.

Mozambique's Commander General of the Police claims Defence and Security Forces recently killed a leader of a militia outfit operating in Niassa province.

The European Union, through UNICEF, has availed a €100 million (around R1.79 billion) grant to help 12 African countries train health workers, shore up logistics, and build confidence in Covid-19 vaccine uptake.

The Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) and the government of Somaliland – which broke away from Somalia in 1991 – have been rescuing trafficked cheetah cubs in the region for the past four years.

West African leaders meeting at a summit in Nigeria have demanded military-ruled Mali stick to plans for February polls, threatening further sanctions.

Tigrayan rebels on Friday denied having looted any food stocks, including items for malnourished children, in the northern Ethiopian town of Kombolcha.

Emirates airline will suspend all flights to Nigeria from next week after the West African nation imposed new restrictions on its flights, the carrier said on Friday.

Now that wealthy nations are sharing more Covid-19 shots with African countries, health officials across the continent are scrambling to overcome vaccine hesitancy.

The armies of Burkina Faso and neighbouring Niger said they had killed around 100 "terrorists" in a joint military operation against jihadists on the border between 25 November and 9 December.

Veteran Kenyan politician Raila Odinga has announced that he would make his fifth bid for the presidency in next year's election.

Five months after foreign soldiers arrived to help Mozambique battle an insurgency in northern Cabo Delgado province, militants have widened their battleground in an evolving conflict, witnesses and analysts say.

Public health authorities in Ghana have introduced new travel guidelines requiring visitors to show proof of vaccination against Covid-19 from next week.

With the conflict urging on in Ethiopia, journalism has been criminalised.

At least 138 people have been killed and dozens wounded in three separate areas of Sudan’s West Darfur state in recent weeks, medics have said, in the latest bout of inter-communal violence.

A lively youth-run radio station, Sudan's 96.0 FM was muzzled for 46 days after authorities banished the channel from the airwaves following an October 25 military coup.

Seventy-three years after the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, African countries have made some progress but more still needs to be done, writes Yanga Malotana.