A short drive from the United Nations complex in Nairobi where talks on a global plastics treaty are taking place this week is Kenya's biggest landfill - a mountain of garbage, carpeted in single-use plastic.

The scene has become all-too-common during Ethiopia's drawn-out war: thousands of Eritrean refugees, shell-shocked and separated from loved ones, fleeing on foot through harsh terrain to escape artillery and gunfire.

Lolade Lawal’s life has been turned upside down in a way she never imagined. The third-year medical student from Nigeria is coming to terms with the effects of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that started last week.

Somalia on Friday extended its deadline to finish voting for the lower house of parliament, the latest in a series of election delays that risk starving the country of budget funds.

African countries are having to spend up to five percent of their annual economic output to shield themselves against the impacts of climate change, even though they emit the least greenhouse gases in the world, a report released Saturday said.

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The United States barred on Friday travel by Somali officials and other individuals to the United States, accusing them of "undermining the democratic process" in Somalia.

Zimbabwean telecommunications billionaire and founder of Econet Wireless Zimbabwe, Strive Masiyiwa has retired from the company he started almost three decades ago to pursue new opportunities.

Twitter was ablaze with memes of Vladimir Putin asking about the East African country.

Tangled in seaweed, buried in sand, washed up in rock pools - tattered old flip flops are an eyesore on Kenya's beaches, flushed out of rivers or carried across the sea from Asia and beyond.

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.