At least 32 people have been killed in Madagascar in an area north of the capital after local bandits known as "dahalo" set homes on fire, according to statements by the defence ministry.

As Zimbabwe continues to remain suspended, young players wonder about the future of the sport and their careers.

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The African Union Election Observation Mission is in for a major month of work, with two teams dispatched to Senegal and Kenya where there are upcoming elections.

For Cecil Sibanda, who is based in the US, memories of walking three hours to school on an empty stomach were enough for him to lead an initiative to build a school for his community.

Eskom is looking to replace Zimbabwe as an importer of electricity from Mozambique and Zambia to help ease load shedding.

There has been a sharp decline in the number of civilians applying for gun licences in Botswana this year.

Nigerian opposition Senators pushed for President Muhammadu Buhari to face impeachment, 10 months before the end of his second term in office, over the country's spreading security problems, the Senate minority leader said on Wednesday.

As a familiar campaign jingle brings the Kenyan crowd to their feet, Hellen Atieno joins her compatriots and sways to the catchy tune at a political rally in the lakeside city of Kisumu.

The World Health Organization has confirmed two more cases of Marburg virus in Ghana, a senior WHO official said, two weeks after the country reported its first outbreak of the highly infectious Ebola-like disease.

Botswana has become the second nation in the world, after Eswatini, to reach a landmark UN goal towards eradicating AIDS, researchers said, in what health experts hailed as "stellar results".

It's straightforward. If the US doesn't step up to help Africa counter terrorism, help will come from elsewhere, says the outgoing commander of the United States Africa Command.

Nine people including a senior local government official were killed on Wednesday in a suicide bombing in southern Somalia claimed by the Al-Shabaab jihadist group, police and witnesses said.

After President Cyril Ramaphosa announced an intention to import electricity from neighbouring countries to supplement South Africa's constrained power supply, Botswana wants South Africa to buy even more from it.

The preliminary Zimbabwe population census results have been released by the country's statistics agency, Zimstat, and shows a marked increase in the national population, that more people live in rural areas, and that there are 92 males for every 100...

The calm air cloaking Lupembe, a sleepy village on the sandy shores of Lake Malawi, conceals a dark secret.

A senior Doctors Without Borders official who visited Ethiopia said that federal authorities refused to meet her to discuss their investigation into the killing of three staff from the medical charity in the war-torn Tigray region.

Thirteen scrap-metal collectors in northeast Nigeria's Borno state were killed when a bomb they excavated blew up, security sources told AFP on Tuesday.

Journalists and media activists in Kenya fear a repeat of the harassment they endured during the 2017 general elections as the country goes to the polls on 9 August.

The International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia has started to investigate war crimes in Ethiopia, and the transitional government of Tigray has called on it to be impartial.