Eswatini's "winter revolution" has derailed a European Union-funded project as pro-democracy groups push for the abdication of King Mswati III.

Rwanda and German pharma company BioNTech broke ground Thursday on Africa's first mRNA vaccine factory where cutting-edge treatments for diseases like Covid-19 will be made for millions across the continent.

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Dnata, a subsidiary of the sprawling Emirates Group conglomerate, has been rocked by controversy in Zanzibar, Tanzania, after it emerged that officials flouted a series of aviation regulations in order to award the company a $7-million tender.

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A coalition of more than 280 organisations from 105 countries has written to President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya to guarantee that there will be no interference with the internet during the general elections.

Prince Charles laid a wreath on Wednesday at a memorial to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda during the first visit to the country by a British royal.

On Tuesday night, Chakwera announced that he had suspended the "delegated duties" of his deputy Saulos Klaus Chilima.

The Lesotho Mounted Police Service is under fire for shooting and killing two student activists who were part of a group protesting against the reduction of student grants at the National University of Lesotho last week.

War in Ukraine has pushed the most vulnerable countries to food security crisis as grain exports blocked.

Hundreds of people belonging to the Amhara ethnic group have been killed by rebels in Ethiopia's Oromia region, survivors have said.

Namibia expects its biggest oil discoveries since independence to help double its economy by 2040.

The presidents of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo met in Kenya as the East African Community resolved to send a force to the eastern part of the DRC to 'secure peace'.

FlySafair is eyeing routes into the rest of Africa, hoping to capitalise on a volatile aviation market and potential boom in post-pandemic travel.

China offered to play the role of mediator to resolve disputes in the Horn of Africa, on the opening day of a regional gathering in the Ethiopian capital.

Gunmen from a criminal gang kidnapped 36 people after attacking several villages and two churches in Nigeria's northwest Kaduna state, a local government official said.

Nearly half of Africa has no access to electricity, but $25bn, or over R400bn in annual investments, could bring full coverage by 2030, the International Energy Agency said.

World Refugee Day is being commemorated under the theme: "Whoever, Whatever, Whenever. Everyone has a right to seek safety."

The European Union added three Al-Qaeda-linked jihadist commanders in West Africa to its terrorist sanctions blacklist for attacks in Mali and Burkina Faso.

After dodging grenades and bullets for decades in a civil war waged by the rebel force Lord's Resistance Army, a community has received recognition on the world stage of admiration for its initiative in education.