Two car bomb explosions at the education ministry in Somalia's capital Mogadishu killed or wounded scores of people on Saturday, police and the state news agency said.

Fighters from the M23 rebel group seized the town of Kiwandja in eastern Congo on Saturday, residents and a local official said, effectively cutting North Kivu's capital Goma off from the upper half of the province.

Talks to end hostilities in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, taking place in Pretoria, are set to end on Sunday, but already the federal government of Ethiopia has reservations.

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Ethiopia's Tigray region has run out of medical supplies such as vaccines, antibiotics and insulin, World Health Organization officials said on Friday.

It was the Zanu PF's first congress since the removal of the late Robert Mugabe via a coup in November 2017.

It's the dawn of a new era in the Kingdom of Lesotho with the inauguration of businessman Sam Matekane as prime minister, and for SADC, there's hope that the new leadership will forge ahead with reforms for transitional justice, social cohesion, and ...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Oct 28 - Racing against time, a yellow tuk-tuk collected nine-year-old Salaeh Mohammed from an internally displaced persons camp and rushed him to a cholera treatment centre in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri.

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.

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.