Cameroon's army said on Monday it had arrested several soldiers and police for torturing a suspected "terrorist" in the country's conflict-scarred anglophone region.

A fourth Guinean Ebola patient died on Monday, the health agency said, as the government and aid groups began to roll out their response to the outbreak.

A former top Central African Republic football official and a militiaman nicknamed Rambo go on trial at the International Criminal court on Tuesday charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity.

The World Trade Organisation selected Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to be the first woman and first African as its leader, tasking the former Nigerian finance minister with restoring trust in a rules-based global trading system roiled by protectionism and the ...

DR Congo President Felix Tshisekedi on Monday named Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde Kyenge, head of the state mining giant Gecamines, as prime minister following a prolonged tussle for power with allies of his predecessor.

Country receives 200,000 jabs from state-owned Chinese manufacturer, with 600 000 expected to arrive next month.

Nigeria's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala looks set to be confirmed Monday as the first woman and first African leader of the beleaguered World Trade Organization, a near-paralysed institution desperately needing a kick-start.

A plane carrying Zimbabwe's first coronavirus vaccines, 200 000 doses donated by China, arrived in the capital Harare on Monday.

Guinea declared a new Ebola outbreak on Sunday when tests came back positive for the virus after three people died and four fell ill in the southeast - the first resurgence of the disease there since the world's worst outbreak in 2013-2016.

Nigeria's president appealed for calm on Sunday following reports of intercommunal violence between ethnic groups at a market in the southwestern state of Oyo.

Seven people who attended a nurse's funeral later came down with diarrhea, vomiting, and bleeding. Now Guinea has confirmed a new Ebola outbreak.

Eleven people were killed after separatist insurgents attacked two military camps in the Democratic Republic of Congo's main mining centre of Lubumbashi Sunday.

Zimbabwe will begin its Covid-19 vaccination campaign next week, the health ministry said on Friday, potentially positioning it as the first southern African country to start inoculating citizens.

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has returned home after a one-month stay in Germany for surgery following post-Covid-19 complications in his foot.

Uganda accused the European Union of meddling on Friday after the bloc's parliament recommended sanctions over a crackdown and arrests of opponents around President Yoweri Museveni's disputed re-election last month.

The UK Supreme Court on Friday allowed a group of 42 500 Nigerian farmers and fishermen to sue Royal Dutch Shell (RDS) in English courts after years of oil spills in the Niger Delta contaminated land and groundwater.

Chad will deploy some 1 000 troops to the tri-border region of Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali to reinforce national armies that, backed by French and European allies, are battling Islamist insurgents, according to French and Chadia

Deaths from Covid-19 in Africa surged by 40 percent over the last month, the World Health Organisation said, as the continent's toll approaches 100 000.

Nigeria's government has warned against weekend protests in Lagos to demand justice for victims of a deadly shooting during demonstrations last year.

AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine is not perfect, but will have a big impact on the pandemic, its chief executive predicted on Thursday, as the drugmaker pledged to double output by April and the African Union gave its backing for the shot.