The medicines recalled had expiry dates ranging between 2023 and 2024. They were manufactured between 2020 and 2021.

The Democratic Republic of Congo is the worst affected among a group of 12 countries in the world in need of immediate food aid, the majority of which are from Sub-Saharan Africa.

It will likely take Botswana 58 years to double its population from the current 2 346 179 estimated from the recently held census, Statistics Botswana says.

At least seven soldiers have been killed and two others were missing in Nigeria after they were ambushed by gunmen while on patrol in the eastern state of Taraba.

Zimbabwean farmers looking to cash in on a global boom in medicinal cannabis face a litany of costs and regulatory barriers.

Daniel Motaung said he applied for a moderator job in Kenya not realizing he would be working at Facebook and exposed to graphic content.

A year on since the Democratic Republic of Congo government enacted a state of siege in North Kivu and Ituri provinces, the number of civilians killed by armed groups has doubled, Amnesty International says in a new report.

At least 14 people have been killed in an overnight attack on a displaced persons camp in east Democratic Republic of Congo's Ituri province.

The Miss Rwanda beauty pageant has been suspended after its organiser, Dieudonné Ishimwe, was arrested in late April on allegations of sexual abuse.

Mozambique and India intend to revive its joint working group on defence as part of counter-terrorism efforts and at the same time to promote their respective blue economies and to curtail drug trafficking.

United States and Chinese rivalry is set to play out in Angola's mobile communication industry, with the arrival of the American-owned Africell Mobile Company.

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for an attack the that killed 11 Egyptian soldiers in the Sinai Peninsula.

While Botswana has introduced judicial oversight after a new law was published earlier this year which allows warantless surveillance, there is still cause for concern, writes Jonathan Rozen.

Major-General Gebremedhin Fekadu has been described as a "martyr" who paid "the ultimate price" at the hands of the Ethiopian government.

Eleven Egyptian soldiers have been killed attempting to thwart a "terrorist" attack on the Suez Canal zone abutting the Sinai peninsula, a hotbed of jihadist activity, the army has announced.

Nigerian airlines are to suspend all flights from Monday over rising jet fuel prices, an umbrella organisation of operators said on Saturday.

From meeting business leaders and entrepreneurs in South Africa, and launching the Global Vaccination initiative in partnership with the Angolan government, to discussing climate change in Gabon, US deputy Secretary of State, Wendy Sherman, ended her...

The UN human rights chief voiced alarm Saturday at recent deadly clashes between Muslims and Orthodox Christians in Ethiopia and called on authorities to investigate and bring perpetrators to justice.

Schools in the wartorn region of Tigray in northern Ethiopia have been turned into prisons for parents who refuse to conscript their children into the Tigray People's Liberation Front or donate their food, cattle and money, the BBC reports.

South Africa Movement leader Mmusi Maimane has joined growing calls in Zimbabwe for a mass stayaway on Monday, because South Africa had "paid a heavy price for the oppression in Zimbabwe".