The National Basketball Association’s plan to tap African fans and new players in the world’s most youthful continent spurred billionaire Prem Watsa-backed private equity firm to invest in the franchise at a valuation of $1 billion.

Zimbabwean businesses - and the government - are seeking alternatives to the local currency.

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The Southern African Editors' Forum (SAEF) has said it is “deeply alarmed” by the fast-tracking of Botswana’s proposed Criminal Procedure and Evidence Bill.

Binance Holdings, one of the world’s biggest crypto exchanges, said it restricted the personal accounts of some Nigerian users to comply with anti-money laundering regulations and ensure the security of the platform for traders.

In Burkina Faso, hundreds of workers are saying good riddance to an ousted president they say let them starve, and are hoping for a brighter future under the soldiers who toppled him.

The Botswana government is seeking to fast track a piece of legislation that journalists say will stifle freedom of the press, trade unions and civil society.

Tunisia's interior ministry said it had foiled a "terrorist" attack, with the arrest of a woman returning from Syria who was planning a suicide bombing at a tourist resort.

Kenya said it has boosted security after several foreign embassies warned of the risk of possible terror attacks targeting Westerners, particularly in the capital Nairobi.

The coronavirus has killed at least 5 635 702 people since the outbreak emerged in China in December 2019, according to an AFP tally compiled from official sources.

South Africa joined the rest of the continent in calling for the military in Burkina Faso to return to their barracks and restore civilian democratic rule. News24 spoke to Emmanuel Matambo, a senior researcher in North African politics for the Centre...

Renewed tribal violence in the western Sudanese city of El Geneina over the past week has displaced more than 15 000 people, the United Nations said.

The novel coronavirus has killed at least 5 625 889 people since the outbreak emerged in China in December 2019, according to an AFP tally compiled from official sources.

Malawi's President Lazarus Chakwera has appointed several new ministers in a rejigged cabinet, a statement from his office has shown, after the old cabinet was dissolved over corruption scandals.

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Ethiopia is accusing the World Health Organisation's director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, of politicising the organisation.

"Botswana currently has more than three million doses of various Covid-19 vaccines in hand for vaccination of all Batswana and residents in the country aged 12 and above," ministry of health and wellness permanent secretary Christopher Nyanga says.

A convoy of Mozambican officials inspecting damage from Tropical Storm Ana was swept away by a swollen river, leaving one person dead and another missing.

The death toll from tropical storm Ana has risen to at least 12 in Mozambique and Malawi, authorities have said, although officials and aid agencies are still assessing the full impact of the storm that swept through southern Africa.

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.