South Africa has announced new restrictions to try to contain a second wave of Covid-19. President Cyril Ramaphosa said a...
The federal government of Somalia has cut diplomatic ties with neighbouring Kenya. It has recalled all its diplomats from Nairobi...
Kenya has ordered 24 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines, the Star newspaper has reported, citing health ministry officials. The Kenyan...
Malawi's Homeland Security Minister, Richard Banda, has signed extradition papers for fugitive pastor Shepherd Bushiri and his wife, Mary, local...
The Democratic Republic of Congo will build a mausoleum for its independence hero Patrice Lumumba, President Félix Tshisekedi said on...
The Islamist extremist group Boko Haram has said it was behind the kidnapping of hundreds of school pupils in north-west...
Top government officials in Nigeria say "everything possible" is being done to ensure the release of two musicians being held...
One of the most high-ranking officials of South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC) has been asked to step aside...
About 1,300 people are on the verge of starvation because of hot weather and a shortage of rainfall in southern...
Zimbabwe's High Court has overturned a magistrate’s ruling barring a prominent human rights lawyer from representing freelance journalist Hopewell Chin’ono...