Protesters commemorate ex-leader’s overthrow with protests against current government that grabbed power after a coup.

The World Food Programme in Ethiopia says, by Friday last week, an estimated 200 000 people in parts of Amhara had received food aid since the mini-truce took effect.

Gunmen who carried out a high-profile attack on a train in northwest Nigeria last month have released a video showing about two dozen of the hostages they kidnapped in the assault.

In January MTN revealed that MTN Nigeria's mobile money service had clocked 9.4 million active users since launching in August 2019

Nigerian vice president Yemi Osinbajo will seek the ruling All Progressives Party (APC) ticket to run for president next February, he said in a Twitter message on Monday, as he bids to succeed his boss Muhammadu Buhari in Africa's top oil producer.

More than two thirds of Africans have been infected by Covid-19 since the pandemic started, 97 times more than reported confirmed cases, according to a World Health Organisation study.

More than 85% of Ugandans have seen no other president in their lifetime, because President Yoweri Museveni has always changed the constitution to stay in power, opposition leader Bobi Wine says.

Countering violent extremism in Africa requires strategic patience, a long-term commitment and an integrated campaign involving a variety of international partners, says United States Special Operations Commander, Rear Admiral Jamie Sands.

Authorities in DR Congo on Friday said six people died in a blast in the country's troubled east caused by a suspected bomb.

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. The facility will focus on 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.