French forces are pulling out of Mali after a breakdown in relations with the country’s military government.

Demand for air travel to, from and within Africa is challenged by low vaccination rates across the continent as well as impacts from rising inflation, says an industry body.

One of the most powerful militia leaders in Libya, Abdel Ghani al-Kikli of the Gheniwa grouping, stands accused of gross human rights violations, a new report by Amnesty International showed.

Zambia's health minister has called on the country's citizens to get vaccinated against Covid-19 as winter approaches, amid an outbreak of influenza at the University of Zambia in Lusaka.

Togo's President Faure Gnassingbe has agreed to act as a mediator in Mali's political crisis as the West African country's military junta faces pressure to re-establish civilian rule, their foreign ministers said.

In a nondescript office north of Kenya's capital Nairobi, social media influencer Ian James Mwai constantly glances at his two mobile phones, wary of missing an opportunity to promote the political party he works for.

Cameroon will this month preside over the Peace and Security Council, the standing decision-making organ of the African Union on the prevention, management and resolution of conflicts.

A young chimpanzee wrapped his arms around the neck of his rescuer in a brief hug as he was released from a wooden cage to scamper off to play in his spacious new enclosure.

Jihadists attacked a village in northeast Nigeria, killing seven people and looting supplies, shortly after UN chief Antonio Guterres arrived in the troubled region for a visit, local sources said on Wednesday.

Botswana has dismissed as 'outrageous' claims by former president Ian Khama that his family is under siege and there's a plot to assassinate him.

Sudanese entrepreneur Mohamed Samir watches proudly as workers assemble garishly coloured rickshaws, unique in the North African nation because they run on electricity in a bid to tackle soaring costs.

There has hardly been a drop of rain in Hargududo in 18 months. Dried-up carcasses of goats, cows and donkeys litter the ground near the modest thatched huts in this small village in the Somali region of southeastern Ethiopia.

Heavily armed Al-Shabaab jihadist fighters on Tuesday attacked a military base in Somalia where African Union peacekeepers are stationed, causing casualties, a local military commander and witnesses said.

This year's Press Freedom Day - on 3 May - is celebrated at a time when journalists operating in Ethiopia are experiencing some of the harshest working conditions to ever emerge in Africa.

According to The Guardian, over 6,500 migrant workers have died in Qatar since it won the right to host the 2022 World Cup in 2010.

The Norwegian Refugee Council said that, so far, 300 000 people have no access to water, after their water sources were attacked.

If the war in Ukraine goes well into May, food prices would likely increase by about 17% with the sharpest hike expected in East, West, and Southern Africa, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in its latest report.

The first South African company on the Financial Times list of Africa’s Fastest Growing Companies is at number 10.

Human Rights Watch has said there was "compelling evidence" that Russian paramilitary troops are committing serious rights abuses and killing civilians in the Central African Republic.

A month-long joint operation by Rwandan security forces and the SADC Mission in Mozambique (SAMIM) in the Macomia district of Cabo Delgado has restored life to normal.