Lesotho citizens were due to vote in an election on Friday, after years of political instability that the southern African mountain kingdom's lawmakers have yet to resolve.

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For about a year and a half, Precious Mpofu, 42, nursed her mother as her health deteriorated, while the family concluded she had been bewitched.

A vast and controversial East African oil project led by French oil giant TotalEnergies risks inflicting "unacceptable" damage, a report by two NGOs warned on Wednesday.

Ethiopia's government and rebels from the country's Tigray region said Wednesday they were ready to attend peace talks after the African Union invited both parties to negotiations in South Africa.

Sixty-three confirmed and probable cases have been reported in the Ebola outbreak in Uganda, including 29 deaths, the World Health Organisation said Wednesday.

Uganda President Yoweri Museveni has removed his son, Lieutenant-General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, as the commander of the land forces of the Uganda People's Defence Force, after a series of tweets that seem to have sparked a diplomatic tiff with Kenya.

African countries will use the COP27 climate talks in Egypt to advocate for a common energy position that sees fossil fuels as necessary to economic growth and electricity access.

Sub-Saharan Africa's economy is set to grow 3.3% this year, down from 4.1% in 2021, the World Bank said, due to slowing global growth, drought, inflation and rising risk of debt distress.

South Africa could play more than just a cameo role in the African Union-led peace initiative in Tigray, a region in northern Ethiopia.

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Lesotho celebrates 56 years of independence on Tuesday, but the celebrations are clouded by the anticipation of the Mountain Kingdom's elections on Friday.

The ruling All Basotho Convention has been unable to pass important constitutional changes in parliament.

A new report by Afrobarometer reveals that, in Madagascar, there is still an overwhelming belief that when you spare the rod, you spoil the child.

Burkina Faso's junta leader Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba agreed to step down Sunday, two days after military officers announced he had been removed from power, religious and community leaders said.

The Annopheles stephensi mosquito species, considered to be an Asian and Arabian Peninsula malaria vector, has spread to at least five African countries in the past decade, according to the World Health Organisation.

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Chad has extended the transition period to democratic elections, while keeping the head of the military junta on as head of state in the interim.