Countries most affected by climate change in Southern Africa have received the least financing for mitigation and adaptation measures because of weak institutions.

Kenya said it was investigating allegations that thousands of donated condoms, mosquito nets and life-saving medicines were stolen from a government-run warehouse and then sold on the black market.

Ugandan author and activist Norman Tumuhimbise and a female journalist have been charged with cyber-stalking the country's president, their lawyer told AFP Thursday, the second writer to be arrested by the authorities recently.

Namibia’s relaxation of the rules comes amid declining Covid-19 infection rates.

Mali's ruling junta ordered French broadcasters RFI and France 24 off the air on Wednesday night, complaining they had falsely accused the army of committing abuses.

The death toll from a cyclone that lashed northern Mozambique last week has risen to 53, authorities in the northern Nampula province said.

Rising prices for food, sent soaring by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, are stoking fears of hunger and turmoil in a troubled corner of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Early this week, Cameroon joined Kenya, Gambia, Tanzania, Rwanda and Ghana in banning shisha smoking. But the idea of banning it in Zimbabwe could be a problem.

A record number of irregular migrants under 18 years old reached Italy from Tunisia last year, more than quadrupling in four years, a rights group said.

Burkina Faso-born Diebedo Francis Kere was honoured for his ‘pioneering’ and sustainable designs in architecture.

Somalia has again pushed back the deadline for completing lower house elections, delaying until March 31 a process that is already more than a year overdue and has resulted in political sanctions.

Human Rights Watch said Rwanda’s ‘abusive legal framework’ is intensifying a culture of intolerance.

A unique initiative relieves sick children from the coldness of hospitals and clutches of pain through music lessons.

A magistrate in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, has ruled that New York Times correspondent Jeffrey Moyo has a case to answer on charges of allegedly helping journalists to gain false accreditation.

Somalia failed to conclude elections for the lower house of parliament by a deadline Tuesday, marking the latest hitch in a deeply troubled process to appoint a new president.

The security situation in Mali has been deteriorating since December last year, with French and its European allies withdrawing their troops after a decade of fighting armed Islamic extremists.

Soldiers in Mali have been responsible for killing at least 71 civilians since early December, a leading rights group said in a report on Tuesday.

The violence in Benishangul-Gumuz is separate from the ongoing war in Tigray.

Botswana police have arrested six men for allegedly robbing the Southern African Development Community of property worth R625 000.

Foreign heads of state and government are expected at the state funeral of the late former president of Zambia Rupiah Banda at Lusaka Showground on 17 March, a day ahead of his burial at the Presidential Burial Site, Embassy Park.