There has been a sharp increase in zoonotic disease outbreaks in Africa in the last decade [2012 to 2022] compared to the previous one, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said.

Are you affected by the decision by government to terminate the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit? News24 wants to hear from you. If you would like to feature in our series highlighting the human impact of this decision, send us a mail to feedback@news24.c...

Islamic extremist attacks in Cabo Delgado took an unexpected turn when insurgents launched surprise attacks on police and army bases in the beginning of July and seized arms and ammunition.

Watch all the latest news videos from around Africa

Airlink has stepped in to plug the void Comair left on the flight path between Johannesburg and Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe.

Police arrested on Wednesday the head of Ethiopia's National Disaster Risk Management Commission (NDRMC) amid allegations of corruption, the Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation reported.

Suspected rebels have killed at least nine people in twin attacks in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, officials said Wednesday, in the latest violence to hit the turbulent region.

Former Malawian president Peter Mutharika, 81, is considering running for presidency in 2025 because of "popular demand".

A French court on Tuesday jailed a former senior Rwandan official for 20 years after finding him guilty of complicity in the African nation's genocide.

On 9 July, the African Union turned 20 and the debate about its effectiveness so far is on the table once again.

Zimbabwe’s central bank has approved a regulation that will allow the country’s power utility, Zimbabwe Power Company, to bill the exporters of goods and services in dollars, euros and other foreign currencies.

Retailers in Zimbabwe are further rejecting the Zimbabwean dollar by pricing their goods and services in US dollars amid a demand by government workers that their salaries be pegged to the US currency.

The United Nations report on Children and Armed Conflict details the "horrific conditions" experienced in conflict zones.

The Human Rights Watch has welcomed an investigation into the killing of nine people by the Cameroonian national army as a positive step towards transparency and accountability.

A staff sergeant deployed as part of Operation Vikela, South Africa's contribution to the Southern African Development Community Mission in Mozambique, has died in a Pemba hospital.

It all started in 1984, when a veterinarian, spurred on to find a sustainable way of ensuring abalone, a mollusc commonly known as perlemoen found in the swaying kelp forests off the West Coast of Africa, wouldn't go extinct.

Angola's former president Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who ruled Africa's second biggest oil producer for nearly four decades, has died aged 79, the Angolan presidency said on Facebook on Friday.

Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo's first step to mending fences will be through the "Luanda Mechanism" talks, which will get underway on 12 July.

Fresh clashes between M23 rebels and soldiers erupted in eastern DRC on Thursday, officials said, as the militia declared that it was not bound by a ceasefire agreement.

An autopsy has been carried out on in Spain on former Angolan president Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who died last week in Barcelona, at the request of one of his daughters who suspects foul play, her lawyers said on Monday.