New gold coins, an interest rate at 200% - among the highest in the world – and jotting down the legal currency status for US dollars into law are all part of the latest money merry-go-round finance measures put in place by Zimbabwe to try to attra...

A new wave of violence in jihadist-hit northern Mozambique uprooted close to 30 000 children in June, the highest monthly figure in the long-running crisis, a British charity reported.

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With under six weeks before Kenya goes to the polls on 9 August, the United States and other international partners are pulling out all stops to see the east African country hold peaceful and credible elections.

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Former president Thabo Mbeki has paid tribute to the late Kenneth Kaunda for his role in the liberation of South Africa from "colonialism of a special type", at the first anniversary of the former Zambian president's death.

The Eswatini government has declared activist and journalist Zweli Martin Dlamini a terrorist, and condemned his online publication Swaziland News.

At least nine Sudanese demonstrators were killed Thursday as security forces sought to quash mass rallies of protesters demanding an end to military rule, pro-democracy medics said.

Ten migrants have been found dead in the desert in northern Niger near the Libyan border, the Nigerien defence ministry said.

The family of Democratic Republic of Congo's murdered independence hero Patrice Lumumba buried his only known remains, a tooth, in the capital Kinshasa, 61 years after his death at the hands of Belgian-backed secessionist rebels.

Parliament's delegation to the Pan-African Parliament congratulated Fortune Charumbira on his election as PAP president.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo marks the 62nd anniversary of its independence on Thursday.

Mali vowed on Wednesday to defy a United Nations Security Council call for the West African country to allow freedom of movement for peacekeepers to investigate human rights abuses.

The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission called on Wednesday for the immediate release of more than 8 500 people from the war-torn Tigray region it said were being illegally held in two camps.

Twenty people were found dead in the Libyan desert following a vehicle breakdown near the border with Chad and were presumed to have died of thirst, rescuers said.

Life in Kinshasa was going well for Zawadi, a mother of two from Rwanda, until faraway fighting stoked Congolese anger against her country and videos of men with machetes prowling the city streets in search of Rwandans surfaced on social media.

The acquistion of equity in the Republic of Mozambique Pipeline Company by South Africa's iGAS and Companhia Mocambicana de Gasoduto has been hailed as a win for natural gas trade between the countries

Ghana police fired tear gas and arrested more than two dozen protesters in the capital Accra on Tuesday after a demonstration over soaring living costs turned violent.

An Algerian appeals court upheld a 20-year prison sentence for corruption against Chakib Khelil, energy minister for a decade under long time president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the APS news agency reported.

The Department of Home Affairs has accused the Helen Suzman Foundation and NGOs of trying to "dislodge" the government in response to the notice that the foundation intended to take the department to court over its handling of the conversion of Zimba...