Experts say a series of monumental economic mistakes has led to acute unemployment and unethical recruitment in Zimbabwe.

As Europe struggles to decarbonise its economy and wean itself off Russian oil and gas, one of the world's sunniest and most arid nations is pitching itself to the continent as an answer to its problems.

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A handful of cases of the virus have now been reported or are suspected in the UK, US, Portugal and Spain.

The civil war, coupled with climate change, disrupted food security, which resulted in more than 5.2 million people in need of food aid, according to United Nations estimates.

Nigerian police said they arrested two suspects behind the kidnapping of students from a Nigerian college last year, one of the most high-profile cases in a recent string of abductions of pupils.

Several outbreaks of monkeypox in Africa have been contained during the Covid-19 pandemic while the world's attention was elsewhere, and outbreaks in Europe and the United States are a concern, Africa's top public health agency said.

The United Nations Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT) has turned its focus on Fulgence Kayishema, a suspected Rwandan genocide perpetrator who it believes is in South Africa.

Many women have painful periods, but only a handful of countries around the world, mostly in Asia, allow them to take time off work to recover.

Mozambique has detected its first case of wild poliovirus in three decades, following an outbreak in neighbouring Malawi in February, the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced on Wednesday.

Zambia’s central bank said it refused to pay ransom to a group known as Hive that was behind a cybersecurity breach that caused minimal damage to its systems.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa initially said the lending ban was motivated by the need to defend the local currency from manipulators and market indiscipline.

The national emergency service said the explosion in the northern city led to the collapse of a building and the deaths.

Namibia could destroy at least 330 000 doses of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine by October to add to the 318 000 doses, worth an estimated R27 million, that have already been destroyed since last year.

Africa’s drive to set up a vaccine industry after being left at the back of the queue in the global scramble for Covid-19 shots has stumbled at the first hurdle.

Turn a corner in Mozambique's seaside capital Maputo, and the skyline vanishes. Colonial Portuguese buildings and mid-century modernist apartment blocks give way to a maze of rutted alleys crammed with tin-roofed shacks.

Some of the vegetables banned include tomatoes, garlic, onions, and cabbage.

Nigeria's economic crimes agency said on Monday night it had arrested the country's accountant general over charges of diverting public funds and money laundering to the tune of 80 billion naira ($193 million).

Through the Countering Malign Russian Activities in Africa Act, the US wishes to "hold to account African governments and their officials who are complicit in aiding (Russia's) malign influence and activities".

The head of Nigeria's treasury has been arrested for alleged involvement in fraud and money laundering worth more than R3 billion, the national anti-graft agency said.