The death of eSwatini student Thabani Nkomonye has sparked outrage among young people who see it as part of a legacy of police brutality in the country.

Prices of goods in Zimbabwe are spiralling again, threatening to halt a decline in consumer inflation, after authorities last week forced businesses to stop quoting prices in US dollars in a bid to encourage more use of the falter

News24 has appointed seasoned journalist Lynsey Chutel to head up its Africa desk.

Ivory Coast's government was to meet with the party of former president Laurent Gbagbo on Wednesday for talks on what his supporters have announced as his impending return.

Ivorian-Burkinabe tailor Pathe'O can look back on a 50-year career that has seen him rise from self-taught improviser to supplier of Africa's wealthy and powerful, including anti-apartheid torchbearer Nelson Mandela.

Chad and the Central African Republic (CAR) have called on the United Nations and African Union to investigate an incident at a border post in which at least six Chadian soldiers were killed by Central African troops, a joint statement said.

The African Union announced it was suspending Mali with immediate effect and threatened the impoverished country with sanctions, after a second military coup in nine months.

The retailer operated 25 outlets in eight states across Africa’s biggest economy but had been struggling with disruptions.

After physical altercations and heated disputes, the Pan-African Parliament has called off its presidential election.

Tuesday saw another day of dramatic scenes at the Pan-African Parliament, as delegates could not agree on electing a president.

More than 90 percent of people in Ethiopia's war-torn Tigray region need emergency food aid, the United Nations said Tuesday, as it appealed for over $200 million to scale up its response.

Streets in the eastern DR Congo city of Goma returned to life on Tuesday, five days after residents fled following warnings that the nearby Nyiragongo volcano could erupt again.

Rwandan authorities on Monday said they had arrested a highly critical YouTuber on charges of denying the 1994 genocide, which could land him in jail for over a decade if he is found guilty.

Gunmen attacked and wounded Uganda's former army commander on Tuesday, killing his daughter and driver in an assassination attempt.

Fears of looting are gripping the eastern DR Congo city of Goma, whose inhabitants fled last week after warnings that the dreaded Mount Nyiragongo volcano could be on the verge of a catastrophic second eruption.

Somalia's breakaway Somaliland region held its first parliamentary election for 16 years on Monday, in what politicians there describe as evidence of its comparative stability.

The Pan-African Parliament in Midrand was the scene of more chaos as members argued about how to vote for a new president.

Streets in southeast Nigeria were deserted on Monday as the former separatist region commemorated the more than one million people who died in the Biafra war and famine half a century ago.

The Pan-African Parliament will vote for a new president on Monday, with a threat from Julius Malema hanging over the session.

At least 39 people have been killed in two new attacks in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, monitors have said, as a local official blamed a notorious group linked to the Islamic State group.