West Africa's regional bloc Friday said it would maintain sanctions on Mali over the military rulers of the Sahel country delaying a return to civilian rule after a coup.

The US Department of State's Africa Regional Media Hub hosted a press briefing for journalists from across the world who put questions to US Army Major-General Andrew M Rohling and Major-General Chikunkha Harrison Soko, of the Land Forces Commander, ...

After two months of intensive rallies and flashes of political violence that claimed at least one life, Zimbabwe will hold by-elections on Saturday to fill 28 parliamentary and 121 hundred local government seats.

Nkateko Muyimane and six fellow African students hid in a subway while Russian shells pounded Kharkiv, before fleeing on a train to Budapest they very nearly failed to board.

An estimated 75% of the seven million population of Ethiopia's war-torn Tigray region have employed extreme coping strategies, with food aid, healthcare and other basic human needs cut off.

Ethiopia's government on Thursday declared "an indefinite humanitarian truce effective immediately", saying it hoped to help hasten delivery of emergency aid into the Tigray region, where hundreds of thousands face starvation.

Kenya announced on Wednesday that nearly 840 000 Covid-19 vaccines received through donations had expired, blaming hesitancy and a short shelf life for jabs going unused.

A newspaper banned in Tanzania five years ago, has been allowed to publish again, while in the Democratic Republic of Congo, another newspaper has been suspended for the next six months.

The war’s ripple effects are hitting developing nations like Zimbabwe hard as supplies of fuel, food are disrupted.

Robert Junior Mugabe, son of the late former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe, has come out in support of Zanu PF ahead of by-elections due to be held in the country.

If African governments overlook the United States as their international partner and opt for China and/or Russia, this will affect the US' global influence, says General Stephen J Townsend, US commander of the United States Africa Command.

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.