Doctors, nurses and other health sector workers in Zimbabwe have put the government on notice that they'll go on strike from Monday in protest against poor working conditions and remuneration.

The week-long summit runs under the theme: "Delivering a Common Future: Connecting, Innovating, Transforming."

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Nigeria's ruling party has won a key governorship election in the bellwether state of Ekiti, the country's electoral commission said Sunday.

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Looking at the sacks of wheat stacked in Imad Abdullah's small home, no one would guess that Sudan's food security is hanging by a thread after an October coup and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

For the first time since war erupted in Ethiopia's north 19 months ago, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has signalled he's open to negotiate with the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF).

Nigeria holds state funeral for those killed by gunmen at a church on 5 June as church officials demand accountability.

A DR Congo soldier was killed and two Rwandan policemen were wounded on Friday in an exchange of fire on their country's tense border that also left civilians injured, security sources said.

Zimbabwean public servants have rejected an offer for a 100% pay increase from the government of the Southern African nation where inflation surged to 132% last month.

A Democratic Republic of Congo soldier who allegedly opened fired on soldiers and civilians on Rwandan soil was shot dead on Friday morning, said the Rwandan Defence Force.

While the world grapples with monkeypox, science from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where the first case was detected in 1970, could lead the way in eradicating the disease.

Voters in southwestern Nigeria's Ekiti state will go to the polls on Saturday to elect a new governor in what could be a bellwether for who wins next year's presidential election.

Security has deteriorated in two provinces in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo since the government placed them under military rule last year, UN experts said on Friday.

Gunmen were travelling on motorcycles near Niger’s border with Burkina Faso, France’s military says.

A gunman on a rampage killed seven people and seriously wounded two others across four villages in northeastern Cameroon, a local administrator and state television said on Thursday.

African countries have documented 1 597 suspected cases of monkeypox since the start of 2022, of which 66 have been fatal, the acting director of Africa's top public health agency Ahmed Ogwell Ouma said on Thursday.

Experts have warned that Rwanda has no capacity to take these asylum seekers, and that going ahead will create a regional crisis.

One of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta's last international engagements before he steps down from power could be helping mediate an end to the war in Ethiopia.

The New York Times' Zimbabwe contributor Jeffrey Moyo says he is scared after being fined and handed a five-year suspended sentence in a case where he was accused of breaching the country's immigration laws.