The discovery sits approximately 290 kilometres off the coast of Namibia, in the deep offshore.

Her tiny mouth is constantly open, trying to suck in air.

A South African man is among nine people Botswana police have killed in a shootout, following a cash-in-transit robbery in the country's capital city, Gaborone.

Privately-owned local airline Airlink launching scheduled direct services between Durban and Harare, Zimbabwe.

Through providing unemployment benefits to people between 19 to 40, the Algerian government seeks to contain growing discontent as the country continues to suffer from a series of shocks such as the Covid-19 pandemic and re-occurring food shortages.

A new report detailing two years of research has found that the extraction of cobalt from mines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is happening under inhumane conditions.

Africa has double the average rate of women-led fintechs, but from 2013 to 2021 less than 5% of $12.6 billion in funding to Africa's tech startups went to fintechs led only by women

The death toll from an accidental explosion at an illegal gold mine in southwestern Burkina Faso rose to 63, the authorities said, adding that they had made an arrest.

Covid-19 has killed at least 5 892 084 people since the outbreak emerged in China in December 2019, according to an AFP tally.

A petition to stop the forced resettlement of more than 70 000 Maasai people from northern Tanzania was handed to the country's president on the sidelines of the recently ended European Union-African Union Summit in Brussels, Belgium.

Mozambique on Monday said the portal hosting government websites was hit by a cyberattack forcing it to take the system offline for several hours.

There's been an uproar in Namibia over the country's capture and auction of 57 elephants worth R5.9 million.

Ethiopia began generating electricity from its mega-dam on the Blue Nile on Sunday, a milestone in the controversial multi-billion dollar project.

Credit Suisse Group AG managed accounts for clients involved in human rights abuses, corruption and drug trafficking, according to newspaper reports based on leaked data on more than 18,000 accounts that together held more than $100 billion.

Sudanese security forces have fired tear gas at protesters demonstrating against last year's military coup, an AFP correspondent said, as a United Nations human rights expert arrived in the country.

An air strike by the Nigerian army targeting 'bandits' has left seven children dead and five others wounded "by mistake" in the Maradi region of southern Niger, a local governor told AFP on Sunday.

Zimbabwe's main opposition party has said at least 80 of its supporters were arrested while campaigning door to door ahead of crunch parliamentary by-elections next month, the party said.

With little over a month before by-elections in Zimbabwe, political violence, allegations of police brutality and unfair conduct by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission have surfaced.

Tonga says space entrepreneur and Tesla founder Elon Musk has donated 50 satellite terminals to help the volcano-damaged Pacific island reconnect with the world.

An Islamic State-linked group killed around 40 civilians this week in a northern region of Mali that has been plagued by clashes between rival jihadist groups, local sources told AFP.