Civilians in Zimbabwe can now report misconduct by their police and the army under a new law.

The United States has ordered its non-emergency diplomatic staff and their families to leave the Nigerian capital Abuja, citing a 'heightened risk of terrorist attacks'.

Warring sides in Ethiopia's devastating two-year conflict are sitting down at the negotiating table Africa this week for their first formal peace talks.

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The Africa 3 members of the United Nations Security Council - Kenya, Gabon and Ghana - have called for the recent uptick in armed conflict in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to be addressed urgently.

With talks under way in South Africa to end the two-year Tigray civil war in Ethiopia, there are calls for social media companies to control hate speech that could stir tempers between the two warring parties.

The first formal peace talks between the warring sides in the brutal two-year conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region went into a second day in South Africa on Wednesday.

In his 10-point plan on emigration, new UK leader Rishi Sunak plans to cap the number of refugees the UK will take in, regain control of the UK’s borders, and "do whatever it takes" to ship deportees to Rwanda.

The DRC and Rwanda are at loggerheads again over accusations that the Rwandan government is aiding the operations of the M23 terrorist group.

SA is hosting the African Union-led peace talks in Pretoria, which brought together the warring factions for the first time since the war began in November 2020.

The first formal peace talks between the warring sides in the brutal two-year conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region opened in South Africa on Tuesday.

It is almost business as usual in the Kingdom of Lesotho again with the swearing-in of the 11th Parliament and election of a new speaker.

The US Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa, Mike Hammer, is participating in African Union-led peace talks in South Africa that are aimed at ending hostilities in Ethiopia.

Eleven people, mostly children, have been killed in a blaze that tore through a school for the blind in Uganda in the early hours of Tuesday, police and a government minister said.

Botswana is seeking to secure funding partners for a R46 billion plant to produce synthetic fuels from coal, a plan rekindled by the energy crisis playing out in Europe, according to its energy minister.

Eight men raided an auctioneer in Harare, Zimbabwe, on 8 October and made off with US$1.2 million (about R21.6 million).

The warring sides in Ethiopia were readying Monday for peace talks in South Africa aimed at finding a peaceful solution to the brutal two-year conflict.

With the African Union-led talks set to get under way in Pretoria to end Ethiopia's two-year-long civil war between the Tigray People's Liberation Front and the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, the latter claims to have started the process of...

An Ethiopian government delegation and rival Tigray forces were due to meet in South Africa for the first formal peace talks since war broke out two years ago.

Four of the longest-serving African heads of state came into power through military coups – and, while they're now over 70 years old, they are not showing any signs of leaving office.