The dollar is strengthening as Africa is already being hit hard by rising inflation triggered by war in Ukraine. And it is amplifying inflationary pressures across the continent, writes Jonathan Munemo.

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has extended a quarantine placed on two districts that are the epicentre of the country's Ebola outbreak by 21 days, adding that his government's response to the disease was succeeding.

Regulators have said January 31 is the deadline for old notes to either be used or deposited at banks.

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Charles Ble Goude, a key figure in post-electoral violence in Ivory Coast 11 years ago, returned to the country Saturday for the first time in more than eight years, an AFP reporter said.

Benin forces have clashed with gunmen near the country's northern border with Burkina Faso leaving four attackers dead, the army said.

The M23 rebel group wants a direct audience with the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo so that a lasting solution to hostilities in the eastern parts of the country can be achieved.

The Democratic Republic of Congo will hold its next presidential polls on December 20, 2023, the country's electoral commission said Saturday.

Access to some parts of Tigray remains constrained even as all four road corridors are now open, UN food agency says.

Somalia's government has declared "all-out war" against the militant group Al-Shabaab and adopted a multi-pronged counterterrorism effort which - despite some early headline-grabbing military gains - promises to be long and difficult.

Malawi's Anti-Corruption Bureau has arrested the country's Vice President Saulos Klaus Chilima over graft allegations, it said on Friday.

The great-grandson of Curt von Francois was disappointed when a 57-year-old statue of the former German military commander Curt von Francois was removed in Windhoek this week.

Gabrielle Union shared more details of her recent trip to Africa with her husband, Dwyane Wade and their daughter Kaavia James.

Ghana's gross international reserves stood at $6.6 billion as of end-September — just enough to cover about three months' worth of imports.

An Algerian court pronounced death sentences on Thursday against 48 people convicted of murder for killing a man they accused of setting deadly wildfires in summer 2020.

The brief ban has compromised countries, such as Zimbabwe and Namibia, who have been trading in live elephants.

Tanzania’s director of public prosecution, Sylvester Anthony Mwakitalu said the charges of murder and conspiracy to murder against the group, which includes 10 leaders, should be dropped.

Malawi is in the grip of a cholera outbreak which has spread across the country, killing 292 people and infecting 9447 since March when the first case was reported, according to health minister Khumbize Chiponda.

Officials say some districts have gone for at least two weeks without registering new infections.

An agreement has been struck which could mean the adoption of a ceasefire in the violence-torn east of DR Congo as soon as late Friday, Angola's Foreign Minister Tete Antonio has said.