Rwanda has launched its Centre of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, becoming the first African country to open a facility wholly dedicated to artificial intelligence.

Nearly a third of MTN subscribers in Nigeria have been blocked from making outgoing calls after a directive by the country’s authorities to restrict all SIMs not linked to ID numbers.

African leaders, opposition figures and social influencers are stepping up their support for the Kremlin even as Russia's image elsewhere is being shredded by the war in Ukraine.

The International Committee of the Red Cross says it will "ramp up" its operations in 10 African countries as part of its hunger alleviation fight, as record numbers of people on the continent go without food.

Yaws, a chronic skin infection, which is characterised by papillomas (non-cancerous lumps) and ulcers, still affects children in nine African countries.

On 4 April, the Day of Peace and National Reconciliation, Angola celebrated two decades of peace.

Zimbabwe’s mining industry sees a funding shortfall of around R145 billion over the next five years, a challenge compounded by erratic power supplies and exchange-rate volatility.

Software giant, SAP South Africa suffered a setback in Zimbabwe when a tender awarded to its Harare partner, Tano Digital Solutions, by the Zimbabwe Manpower Development Fund was declared illegal by the Harare High Court.

The government of Botswana has described the burning of a vehicle and house belonging to the country's minister of local government and rural development as being politically motivated.

Suspected Islamist militants have killed at least 21 civilians in an overnight attack on a village in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a local human rights group and a witness have said.

The US State Department has said it was following "extremely disturbing" accounts of killings in central Mali, after the Sahel state's military said it killed over 200 militants.

In early March 16 African countries including South Africa abstained from voting on a resolution in the UN General Assembly calling on Russia to end its military operations in Ukraine. Olayinka Ajala examines five reasons why African countries have c...

Ministers from the Southern African Development Community will meet in Pretoria, on Sunday to discuss the possible extension of troop deployment in northern Mozambique.

About 20 civilians were killed in a night attack on a gold mine in Burkina Faso's restive north, local sources said Saturday.

Uganda has said it had deported a leading figure in a banned Rwandan opposition group, in a further sign of warming ties between Kampala and Kigali after years of tensions.

Waheen market, home to an estimated 2 000 shops and stalls, was gutted by the fire which started on Friday evening.

Mali's army said Friday that it had killed 203 combatants in an operation in the centre of Sahel state, an apparent uptick in violence in the conflict-torn country.

Through Chess in Slums Africa, an initiative to provide teaching and mentorship to underprivileged kids, Tunde and his crew have managed to keep children in school, away from child labour, and to help reconfigure their mindsets.

The number of out-of-school children in South Africa tripled from 250 000 to 750 000 between March 2020 and July 2021, a new Unicef report says.

Gunmen suspected to be from Ethiopia's Amhara region killed 26 people and injured 15 in an ambush on a vehicle carrying militia in neighbouring Oromiya, local officials said.