Political analysts in Malawi say President Lazarus Chakwera's shock axing of his Cabinet is a result of his clash with the director-general of the country's Anti-Corruption Bureau.

The engineers aboard the floating power station on Lake Kivu could only watch nervously as the volcano in the distance erupted violently, sending tremors rumbling through the water beneath them.

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Zimbabwe's most popular opposition figure, Nelson Chamisa, on Monday announced a change of name for his Movement for Democratic Change Alliance ahead of the 26 March by-elections.

Suspected Islamist militants have killed at least 12 civilians and burned houses and motorbikes during raids on two villages in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

Tropical storm Ana has killed at least 34 people in Madagascar and two people in Mozambique in recent days while knocking out power in Malawi, authorities in the three countries have said.

The Special Investigating Unit will look into a decade and a half of failed acquisitions, and strategy advice.

Eight people were killed and about 50 injured in a crush outside a Cameroonian football stadium ahead of an Africa Cup of Nations match.

Malawi's President Lazarus Chakwera has dissolved the country's entire cabinet in charges of corruption on some of his ministers, he said in an address to the nation.

Zimbabwe's main opposition leader announced his party will drop its storied but contested name, sidestepping factional squabbles and a legal dispute.

Botswana's president has vowed to fully implement a 2019 court ruling decriminalising homosexuality, two months after losing an appeal that sought to overturn it.

African Union Commission chief Moussa Faki Mahamat has condemned an "attempted coup" in Burkina Faso after the country's president was reportedly detained following a mutiny by soldiers.

More than 1 000 Anglophone people arrested between 2016 and 2021 in relation to the Anglophone crisis, are behind bars in at least 10 prisons across the country, including 650 in Buea, 280 in Yaoundé, 181 in Douala and 101 in Bafoussam. Dozens have ...

Behind gunfire, rape, kidnappings, destruction of public infrastructure, and a man-made hunger crisis in Cabo Delgado there are key drivers that should be dealt with if lasting peace is to be achieved in the insurgent-hit Mozambican province.

Gaborone High Court Judge, Christopher Gabanagae, has ruled in favour of a local company Fresh Standard (Pty) Ltd, in a first of its its kind case, in the country involving the cultivation and processing of cannabis sativa and industrial hemp.

Burkina Faso President Roch Kabore has been detained at a military camp by mutinying soldiers, according to four security sources and a West African diplomat, following heavy gunfire around his residence on Sunday night in the capital Ouagadougou.

In a bid to get youngsters off the streets, a Zimbabwean self-proclaimed prophet is offering up to R2 million in a bible verse challenge.

Zimbabwe's central bank and business leaders met Friday to explore ways to halt the plunge of the local currency against the US dollar, the Sunday Mail newspaper reported.

Cameroon's government said that 16 people were killed in a fire caused by fireworks in a nightclub in the capital Yaounde.

Nigeria's giant new Dangote oil refinery will start processing crude in the third quarter of this year.