Malawi has discovered a mass grave in the north of the country containing the remains of 25 people suspected to be migrants from Ethiopia, police said.

President Cyril Ramaphosa and Kenya's William Ruto are the two most recent African leaders to reaffirm support for Western Sahara.

One of the poorest and most arid states in the world, the landlocked nation of Chad has been hit by exceptional floods that have affected hundreds of thousands of lives.

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The UN has warned that Somalia is on the brink of a child malnutrition tragedy at a scale not seen in decades.

The Zimbabwean government has urged residents with exemption permits to comply with South African laws after it emerged only a handful had applied for the available mainstream visas.

The Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe has announced the approval of the use of long-acting injectable cabotegravir (CAB-LA) as a pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention, a first for Africa.

UN says a child is being admitted for medical treatment for malnutrition every minute in Somalia as drought worsens.

A second attempt is under way to convene talks in South Africa to end the hostilities in Ethiopia's Tigray region, but fighting seems to be intensifying.

Ahead of next year's elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo, researchers have said they were concerned the process had got off to "a bad start" and warned of the risk of "violent protests".

Tigrayan rebels have said that Ethiopian and Eritrean forces had taken control of the strategic city of Shire in north-western Tigray.

A crackdown by authorities in Zimbabwe to support the local currency and fight inflation has increased the use of US dollars in the economy, according to the country’s oldest brokerage.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa declared that next year Zimbabwe would 'hold elections in the full glare of world attention'.

Media groups asked Uganda's top court on Monday to scrap a new digital communications law which they said broke the constitution and crippled free speech.

The Serum Institute of India plans to manufacture 20 000 to 30 000 doses of an experimental Ebola vaccine by the end of November for use in trials against an outbreak in Uganda, its developers and a company source said.

The biggest challenge to the public health system in Africa is underinvestment, says Amanda McClelland, senior vice-president of Prevent Epidemics at Resolve to Save Lives.

Ethiopia's government on Monday recommitted to peace talks over Tigray but did not address African Union appeals for a ceasefire, vowing instead to carry out "defensive measures" including seizing airports and other federal facilities in the region.

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The chair of the African Union on Sunday called on those involved in the two-year-old conflict in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region to implement an immediate, unconditional ceasefire and agree to direct peace talks.

Health ministry reports 19 deaths and 58 confirmed cases since the outbreak was first reported on 20 September.