Little of Africa's wastewater is treated, water for drinking and hand-washing is scarce for hundreds of millions of people, and water-related disasters like flooding are on the rise, particularly in West Africa.

The US has pledged support for President Felix Tshisekedi's reform agenda and provides over R4.8 billion in aid to the DRC.

The vaccination of more than 20 million children against polio in Malawi, Mozambique Tanzania, and Zambia, through government partnerships with the United Nations Children's Fund, has started.

An estimated 200 000 children have been victims of online sexual exploitation and abuse in Tanzania in the last year, a new study has found.

Everyone in Tunisia will have a chance to express their views on plans for a new political system before a panel gives directions for constitutional reforms, President Kais Saied said on Monday.

At least 22 people died after a bus crashed into a lorry in eastern Tanzania on Friday, the presidency said.

According to Ian Khama, Botswana's Directorate of Intelligence and Security has his brothers in custody.

Economic woes worsened by Covid-19 pandemic and Russia-Ukraine war have led to a deadlock between teachers and gov’t.

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, in its rapid assessment of the war in Ukraine, forecasts an alarming situation for developing countries, especially for African states.

The US has imposed sanctions on Belgian businessman Alain Goetz and a network of companies tied to him that it accused of being involved in the illicit movement of gold from the DRC and funding insurgents.

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.