Seven election workers have been killed during Niger's presidential vote when their vehicle struck a landmine, a local official said.

Gunmen have opened fire on the motorcade of Libyan Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha in the capital Tripoli but he escaped unharmed, a source close to Bashagha said.

A small Nigerian air force passenger plane crashed just outside Abuja airport due to engine failure, killing all seven people on board, the air force said.

The head of the World Health Organization on Sunday appealed to Tanzania to take "robust action" to combat Covid-19 in the country, where the president has long played down the virus.

Algerian authorities released at least 35 pro-democracy activists from jail in the past 24 hours under presidential pardons issued ahead of the second anniversary of a popular uprising, rights groups said.

Bowker, a British national, is credited for widely covering the civil war in Cabo Delgado and exposing the looting of national resources by the elite class in that country. He was deported along with his partner and journalist, Leigh Elston and their...

The Lekki tollgate in Lagos, Nigeria's sprawling megacity of 20 million people, has frozen in time since October when security forces shot at peaceful protesters.

eSwatini's King Mswati III said he had recovered from Covid-19 after Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen sent antiviral medication to help him.

Gunfire and rockets exploded on Friday in Mogadishu as Somali government forces clashed with protesters angered by delayed elections, hours after fighters loyal to the government and to the political opposition exchanged gunfire.

A Chadian court on Thursday sentenced a rights activist to three years in jail for writing that the country's iron-fisted ruler was seriously ill and being treated in France.

French President Emmanuel Macron has proposed that rich Western countries transfer 3-5 percent of their stock of Covid-19 vaccines to Africa, in an interview with the Financial Times published on Thursday.

An Algerian court on Thursday sentenced to death a jihadist for the kidnapping and beheading of French mountaineer Herve Gourdel six years ago after a high profile one-day trial.

A Tunisian entrepreneur growing edible flowers says she is surprised by the appetite for her homegrown product in the north African country and hopes to see a "new culinary culture" bloom.

Namibia plans to roll out the AstraZeneca vaccine even after SA stalled its use after trials showed it’s less effective against mild infection of a new Covid-19 strain.

China will donate 100 000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines to Namibia, its ambassador to the country said on Thursday.

Zimbabwe kicked-off its Covid-19 vaccination programme on Thursday after receiving a donation of 200 000 doses of the Sinopharm vaccine from China earlier in the week.

Six children were killed and five others injured in northwest Uganda after an old explosive they found in the bushes detonated as they played with it, police said on Thursday.

Zimbabwe's biggest mobile phone operator has been banned from sending coronavirus updates.

Africa's total reported death toll from Covid-19 was approaching 100 000 on Thursday, a fraction of those reported on other continents but rising fast as a second wave of infections overwhelms hospitals.

Paul Rusesabagina, the polarising hero of the hit movie "Hotel Rwanda," went on trial Wednesday on charges including terrorism that drew international calls for his release.