Two cases of the deadly Marburg virus have been identified in Ghana, the first time the Ebola-like disease has been found in the West African nation, health authorities announced on Sunday.

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Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa says, as the country reaches the homestretch to general elections next year, he has noted "worrisome" and "meddlesome" tendencies from foreign missions accredited to the country.

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Zimbabwe central bank officials plan to meet with retailers on Tuesday over price hikes, the Sunday Mail reported.

When Muhammed Sandeng first learned that his father, political activist Ebrima Solo Sandeng, had been tortured to death at the Gambian national spy agency's headquarters, he felt one emotion above all else.

Like a heavyweight wrestler caught with an ankle lock move and expected by his opponent to give up, Zimbabwean serial victim of state repression, opposition politician Job Sikhala is not about to throw in the towel.

The Togolese army has admitted to killing seven children on 10 July in a blast in the village of Margba near its border with Burkina Faso.

Fires ravaging remote mountain forests in northern Morocco have killed at least one person and forced the evacuation of more than 1 000 families, officials said on Friday.

South Africa has deployed 200 fully equipped border guards to the Beitbridge border post with Zimbabwe.

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.

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.

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.