The Democratic Republic of Congo has ordered mobile-phone companies operating in the African nation to pay a levy estimated at about $180 million (R2.8 billion) a year, people with knowledge of the matter said.

A Zimbabwean man who pulled a video prank about being a buyer of human toes has been charged with "criminal nuisance".

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Four candidates are in the running to become Kenya's next president, including current deputy president William Ruto and veteran politician Raila Odinga, the electoral body said.

About a year before Zimbabwe's general elections, where President Emmerson Mnangagwa will seek re-election for a second and last term, the country's "insult law" is increasingly being used.

Two Zimbabweans have been killed and one Motswana injured during a shootout with the Botswana Police Service in Gaborone.

To address the long-standing tensions between neighbours Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo leaders should correct historical differences first, says a former DRC presidential candidate.

Russia’s Vi Holding has quit its involvement in Zimbabwe’s Great Dyke Investments platinum company.

The Catholic Diocese of Ondo in Nigeria has called for peace in the country after gunmen opened fire on a Catholic church in Owo town, leaving at least 50 people dead.

Gunmen have attacked a Catholic church in southwest Nigeria during mass, killing at least 50 people including women and children, according to a hospital doctor and media reports.

Zimbabwe’s biggest platinum project, which has been struggling to get off the ground for the past two years, has a new challenge – a major stake held by a Russian tycoon is scaring off potential financiers for the $3 billion (R1.8 trillion) mine,...

Egypt's supply minister said he met with the Indian ambassador to go over a possible deal for 500,000 tons of wheat.

African countries are acutely affected by the growing crisis which has caused a rise in prices of food and fuels.

President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda has likened Covid-19 to the biblical "rod of anger", saying that the country has managed to pull through the global pandemic because of Christian teachings.

African Union head Macky Sall on Friday urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to take into account the suffering in African countries from food shortages caused by the conflict in Ukraine.

One person has been killed in Guinea's capital late during protests over fuel price hikes, an opposition coalition and a member of the victim's family have said, in the most serious unrest since a military junta.

Claims that human toes are being bought and sold in Zimbabwe are a hoax, but facing prosecution for importing and selling sex toys is not.

The European Investment Bank committed 75 million euros ($80 million) on Thursday to finance construction of a new facility in Senegal that will produce Covid-19 and other vaccines for use across Africa.

The war in Ukraine is overshadowing Africa's age-old humanitarian problems that often go unnoticed, the Norwegian Refugee Council says in its annual analysis of neglected crises.

The head of the African Union, Senegalese President Macky Sall, will speak with President Vladimir Putin in the southwestern Russian city of Sochi on Friday, Dakar said.