Three years ago, Akor Pelkings fled his home in western Cameroon, where a conflict raged between the security forces and rebels fighting for an independent state.

Mozambique's President Filipe Nyusi on Wednesday fired six ministers, including the country's finance minister, an official statement from the President's office said, in what was seen as a major cabinet reshuffle.

The government of the Tigray region in Ethiopia says it wants to approach Unesco to help stop the illicit trade in its historical artefacts and memorabilia.

Insurgents have spread their tentacles into the southern parts of Tanzania, where they are plotting and launching attacks into the oil and gas-rich Cabo Delgado.

As at least half a million refugees flee Ukraine, more reports of mistreatment by Ukrainian border guards surface.

Her severed head was placed in front of their door.

The African Union says everyone, including Africans, has a right to cross international borders in times of conflict as Russia continues its march into Ukraine.

Ukraine is finding it hard to get its message across in southern Africa, where there remains affection for Moscow dating from the apartheid era, the Ukrainian ambassador in Pretoria said.

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.