The South African government has agreed to donate more than two million doses of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine, worth R288.6, million to other African countries.

Cameroon's government must shift its focus from military-backed attacks to justice, in its efforts to quell violence in the country's Anglophone regions, Human Rights Watch says.

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Lesotho's privately owned radio station 357 FM has been taken off the air and will only return to broadcasting on 10 January in what that country's Media Institute of Southern Africa says is a gag on media freedom.

The Democratic Republic of Congo has said that the latest Ebola outbreak was officially over, as the country marked 42 days with no new cases.

Malawi will make Covid-19 vaccines mandatory for frontline staff including health workers and journalists, health minister Khumbize Kandodo Chiponda said on Thursday, as the country grapples with a surge in new infections.

Security forces allied to Ethiopia's army are rounding up and killing Tigrayan civilians in a fresh wave of ethnic violence in the country's brutal war, two rights groups said Thursday.

Eight days before Libyans were meant to cast presidential votes, there is utter confusion over the fate of an election that has not yet been formally delayed but that has almost no chance of going ahead on time.

KALANGALA, Uganda, Dec 16 - Uganda is delivering HIV medicine by drone in an archipelago in Lake Victoria, a pilot programme aiming to improve the transport of medical supplies for the country's health system, which faces chronic shortages.

An international human rights group on Thursday accused separatist fighters in Cameroon's Anglophone regions of systematically targeting schools, students and teachers during a civil war that has killed thousands of people.

South African-born billionaire Dr Patrick Soon-Shiong looks set to establish a Covid-19 and cancer vaccine centre in Botswana.

Ethiopian authorities must immediately free all detained journalists and stop using wartime emergency laws to lock up reporters for doing their jobs, a press freedom watchdog said Thursday.

Southern African countries stand to lose billions of US dollars in wildlife and tourism revenue if the United Kingdom passes into law a bill that seeks to ban the importation of hunting trophies.

The Unesco Summit accorded Congolese rumba the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity status. Two countries - the Democratic Republic of Congo and Congo Brazzaville - applied for Congolese rumba to be given special notice.

Rwanda has confirmed six cases of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, the health ministry said, as it pushed for authorities in the small East African country to urge people to get vaccinated.

A Kenyan court has temporarily halted the government's plan to require Covid-19 vaccination for access to public services until a petition challenging it is heard and ruled upon, court documents seen by Reuters showed.

Hunger in Africa has worsened significantly with an almost 50 percent rise in those considered undernourished compared to 2014, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and other agencies said.

Of the Sub-Saharan African countries, Botswana ranked the highest, followed by South Africa and Namibia.

Pirates took six hostages during an attack on a Greek-operated container ship in international waters in the Gulf of Guinea a spokesperson for the Danish military said.

Botswana will no longer recognise refugees from Zimbabwe who entered the country in 2008, claiming they were fleeing political violence.