In power since independence in 1990, Namibia's South West Africa People's Organisation will for the first time put forward a woman as its presidential candidate in 2024.

Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, said on Tuesday that a Zambian student who died in Ukraine had been fighting for his Wagner Private Military Group.

Three US citizens of Cameroonian origin have been arrested and charged with raising funds for separatist fighters in the Central African country, the U.S. Justice Department said.

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The Kariba South Hydro Power Station provides Zimbabwe with about 70 percent of its electricity.

Despite Asia's tough stance on drug trafficking, some African women risk it all for the money.

If public opinion is to be considered, Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera is moving in the right direction with his graft fight that has netted the second most powerful politician, his deputy Saulos Chilima.

MTN Ghana says it has received a directive to deactivate sims that have not completed a biometric registration process, set to effect 5.7 million subscribers, or a quarter of its base

Somali security forces have ended an hours-long siege by Al-Shabaab militants who stormed a popular hotel in the capital Mogadishu overnight, killing eight civilians, the national police spokesperson said.

Botswana police shot and killed three armed robbers and two bystanders during a shootout in Gaborone on Friday.

Rescuers searching for dozens of others reported missing after landslide in Cameroon’s capital, Yaounde.

In South Africa, Ethiopia, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, human and organic waste are used to sustain food security and, by extension, create jobs.

At least four people were killed in an ongoing attack by Al-Shabaab militants who laid siege to a popular hotel in Somalia's capital Mogadishu overnight, a security agency official told AFP on Monday.

Lesotho says South Africa breached its 'free movement' arrangement with the country when authorities instructed 400 Basotho to leave Newcastle in KwaZulu-Natal early last week.

Al-Shabaab militants attacked a hotel near the presidential palace in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Sunday, police and witnesses said, with explosions and gunfire heard in the city centre.

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.

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.