Gunmen attacked a passenger train in northwest Nigeria on Monday night, opening fire after detonating explosives on the track, but were repelled by troops without causing casualties, a security source and friends of passengers told AFP.

Wide-ranging sanctions against Russia could have serious implications for Africa, affecting the continent’s ability to procure and maintain military hardware from Russia, writes Moses B. Khanyile.

At least 300 people have died and more than have been 350 injured between November last year and February this year in multiple airstrikes carried out by the Ethiopian Air Force in Tigray and Afar, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees s...

The by-elections held on Saturday had all the trademarks of a typical Zimbabwean election: tension, drama, intrigue, mass rallies, accusations, counter-accusations, and newly found generosity by the contestants.

Zambia may be better known for mining copper than crypto, but a group of young entrepreneurs are looking to reinvent the country as an African technology hub - with support from Ethereum co-creator Vitalik Buterin.

A carved mask from Central Africa, dating from the 19th century, was sold in France for 4.2 million euros (over $67 million) on Saturday, despite Gabonese protesters in the auction house calling for the item's "'restitution".

Egyptian police have arbitrarily detained at least 30 Sudanese refugees and asylum seekers, subjecting some to abuse and "forced physical labour", Human Rights Watch has said.

Nigeria's ruling party has appointed a new chairman at a national convention meant to end infighting as it prepares to select a candidate to replace President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2023 election.

Zimbabweans voted Saturday in key parliamentary and municipal by-elections seen as a test for President Emmerson Mnangangwa's ruling party in next year's general polls.

Ethiopia has declared a conditional truce, and their rebel opponents in Tigray have agreed to cease hostilities if certain terms are met. Does this bring Ethiopia any closer to peace?

President Hakainde Hichilema took office last year with the kind of anti-corruption promises that Zambians have learned to take with a grain of salt. This week, those promises became more real.

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.