Zimbabwean farmers looking to cash in on the global boom in medicinal cannabis face a litany of costs and regulatory barriers, but growers such as Munyaradzi Nyanungo are betting it will boost their fortunes after decades of economic decline.

Emmerson Mnangagwa has stymied Zimbabwe's economy, five years after he declared the country "Open for business."

The Ethiopian government has revoked the media accreditation of The Economist journalist Tom Gardner.

Nigeria has recorded 15 monkeypox cases this year since the disease's re-emergence in the country in September 2017.

The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has backtracked on its blanket directive to stop banks’ lending activities after Tongaat Hulett’s Zimbabwe units and other companies stopped credit sales and advances to suppliers.

Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema met his counterparts from South Africa and Botswana, Cyril Ramaphosa and Mokgweetsi Masisi, respectively, on the sidelines of the Investing in African Mining Indaba 2022 to discuss trade and investments.

Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor, John Mangudya, called it painful, but a "temporary, necessary measure to ensure that there is sanity in terms of taming inflation".

The US is not opposed to China investing in Africa but wants to make sure "that it follows the highest standards", says US Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy and the Environment Jose W Fernandez on the sidelines of the Investing in African M...

A measles outbreak in Zimbabwe has resulted in the death of 14 children in Manicaland, at a time when about 17 500 cases have been confirmed in Africa so far this year.

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.