An estimated 13 million people in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia are facing severe hunger as the Horn of Africa experiences its worst drought in decades, the World Food Programme has said.

Zimbabwe's central bank has ruled out a return to using the US dollar as official currency because there's not enough greenbacks in the country.

The cyclone that battered parts of Madagascar over the weekend killed at least 20 people, displaced 50 000 and destroyed crops that were close to being harvested, the head of the United Nations' food aid agency in the country said.

The government of Botswana has made alterations to the new Criminal Procedure and Evidence Bill in what a coalition of media practitioners has called a positive "trade-off."

Moroccans attended the funeral of Rayan, a five-year-old boy who spent five days trapped down a well, sparking a vast rescue operation that gripped the world but ended in tragedy.

South Africa was urged by the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) to address xenophobia, rising unemployment and inequality at the recent African Union (AU) Summit in Ethiopia.

In a travel advisory notice, the US Department of State has warned its citizens in Ethiopia that should the situation in the East African country deteriorate further, it will not be able to evacuate them.

Three crew members on board a Nigerian oil vessel that exploded and sank last week have been found alive while seven were still missing, the ship operator said.

Although they are not responsible for causing climate change, Africans are the ones who are bearing the brunt and the cost of the phenomenon, says President Cyril Ramaphosa.

Tunisian President Kais Saied has dissolved a major independent judicial watchdog, he said Sunday, accusing it of bias and working for special interests.

Clashes between military forces and armed groups at the facilities of a former international peace-keeping mission in Sudan's Darfur region left an unknown number of people dead and injured on Saturday, a military statement said.

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia has called for Africa to be given a bigger role in the UN, especially on the Security Council where peace and security matters are handled.

An Egyptian businessman has been charged with "human trafficking" and "sexual assault" a month after he was arrested over accusations that he abused seven girls in an orphanage he founded.

Palestinian prime minister Mohammed Shtayyeh on Saturday urged the African Union to withdraw Israel's accreditation, bringing simmering tensions to a head as the 55-member bloc opened a two-day summit in Addis Ababa.

Winds of more than 200km per hour were forecast as Cyclone Batsirau bore down on Madagascar.

Heads of state gathered Saturday at the African Union headquarters to kick off a two-day summit as the continent reels from a spate of military coups and the coronavirus pandemic.

An oil vessel used for storage that exploded off the coast of Nigeria this week had not been maintained for sometime and had technical issues, two sources and an environmental group said on Friday, as its wreckage lay in the sea after the fire was pu...

Aid agencies say it is because Africa's newest sovereign country inherited a legacy of prolonged civil war and severe underdevelopment.

"We are looking at how to strengthen democracy and public freedom, using a new path that will allow different political parties to work together," Burundian President Ndayishiminye says.

Many people are deserting the ranks of the Islamic insurgency in Mozambique as the military presses gains, according to the deputy chief of a multinational African force who admits the conflict remains a "puzzle".