Climate change has reduced agricultural productivity in Africa by more than a third since 1961.

Nigeria, South Africa and other African governments scrambled on Monday to help their citizens escape the Russian invasion in Ukraine after reports of racist and unfair treatment of Africans at border crossings.

The presidents of Botswana and Zimbabwe are grateful for the role played by Rwanda in fighting insurgents in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province.

Political violence in Zimbabwe ahead of upcoming by-elections claimed the life of a Citizens Coalition for Change supporter in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's hometown of Kwekwe.

Nigeria on Monday urged border officials in Ukraine and neighbouring countries to treat its citizens equally amid mounting reports of racial discrimination against Africans fleeing the Russian invasion.

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.

What can be done to prevent Africa from becoming the world's biggest dumping ground for plastic?

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.