Ambassador Cindy McCain said that, on her last visit to Kenya and Madagascar, she saw what the war in Ukraine could do to Africa.

The Ethiopian government says it's carefully examining the contents of a recently released report by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International detailing systematic ethnic cleansing in the Tigray region.

More than half of the 2 121 public health events recorded in the past two decades in Africa are climate-related, the World Health Organisation says in a new report to mark World Health Day.

A military court in Burkina Faso has handed down a life term to former president Blaise Compaore over the 1987 assassination of revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara.

The director of USAID's health, population and nutrition office, Paul McDermott, said addressing malnutrition was critical to improving health, education and economic development.

As industry and economic experts press for official dollarisation of the economy, Zimbabwe is to introduce a new ZWL100 denominated note, the highest bill in circulation in its economy.

A veteran investigative journalist in Malawi was jailed this week for failing to reveal his sources, while authorities in Ethiopia released two reporters after four months in detention.

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.