Detoh Rie has spent the last five days hiding in a swamp with his children - one among thousands of South Sudanese forced to flee their homes as renewed violence threatens to return the fragile nation to war.

Egypt's state-appointed human rights council has urged prosecutors to investigate whether an economic researcher, who authorities say died in a state mental health facility last month, was a victim of forced disappearance.

Gunmen have killed over 100 people after ransacking a group of villages in central Nigeria, local sources said, in one of worst attacks this year blamed on heavily armed criminal gangs who terrorise parts of the country.

Survivors' stories are contained in a report by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International titled "We Will Erase You from this Land" which has largely been condemned by the Ethiopian government.

Millions of people in Somalia are at risk of famine, with young children the most vulnerable to the worsening drought in the troubled Horn of Africa nation, UN agencies warned on Tuesday.

The family of one of Egypt's most prominent human rights activists, Alaa Abd el-Fattah, said on Monday he had obtained British citizenship as part of a campaign to win his release from prison and spotlight the plight of fellow detainees.

A Colombian researcher has been trampled to death by an elephant in Kibale National Park in western Uganda, the country's national parks authority said on Monday.

At least 60 people have been killed in the space of a week in Ituri, one of the 25 provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), by assailants who looted homes and shops.

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.