At least 17 civilians have been killed in Sudan's Darfur region, officials has said in the latest violence between rival ethnic groups that has left dozens dead.

Elephants in Tanzania's famed Ngorongoro conservation area have killed a Maasai man who had gone there hunting for firewood, police said.

Governments are moving ahead with plans to open avenues for maize imports, in order to alleviate hunger.

The company had challenged the Nigerian Federal Inland Revenue Service over a tax claim after the FIRS accused it of skipping taxes.

Mali has said it would investigate the disappearance of several Mauritanians on its territory, which has caused a diplomatic row between the two West African countries.

A new research report into the conflict, which has battered Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province for over four years, suggests that military action alone won't bring peace to the region.

International Relations and Cooperation Minister Naledi Pandor says South Africa fully supports the idea of a single African currency.

Fuel shortages in Nigeria have caused domestic airlines to cancel some internal flights and delay others this week, two of the country's biggest carriers said.

Three soldiers from the Zimbabwe National Army have each been sentenced to 15 years behind bars after being convicted of armed robbery, theft and unlawful entry by the Zimbabwe Defence Forces General Court Martial.

The United Nations warned that it faces a crippling lack of funds to tackle Somalia's devastating drought, which has been "overshadowed" by other humanitarian crises including the war in Ukraine.

Militiamen have killed 18 civilians who had sought refuge in a church compound in eastern Congo, a witness and a local human rights groups said.

The release of Tanzanian opposition leader Freeman Mbowe last week raised hopes of an easing of political freedoms in the East African nation, but observers say much more is needed to turn the page on years of authoritarian rule.

About 250 youths from refugee communities in the oil- and gas-rich province of Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, have graduated in various technical jobs. The region has been the scene of an Islamic insurgency.

A group of Nigerians have offered to fight in Ukraine after the country called on foreign volunteers to join their fight against the Russian invasion, but the Nigerian government is not amused.

A former justice minister and senior figure in Tunisia's Islamist-inspired Ennahdha party, under house arrest since December, was released Tuesday but remains under investigation on "terrorism" charges, the government said.

Google has pledged R15.3 million to grow small businesses owned by African women.

Tropical storm Gombe has just made landfall over northern Madagascar (Figure 1) and is expected to move into the Mozambique Channel on Wednesday, according to the South African Weather Service (Saws).

Malawi's President Lazarus Chakwera has been accused of corruption and a failing government system that has resulted in the masses "languishing in abject poverty".

The World Health Organisation has put Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zambia on high alert after a wild poliovirus case was detected in Malawi.

Nadia was just 16 when she was married off to a violent husband old enough to be her father -- an ordeal thousands of Moroccan girls face every year due to a legal loophole.