Jihadists plaguing parts of northern Mozambique for the past three-and-half years abducted dozens of children during raids in 2020, British charity Save the Children has said in a report.

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

Armed groups in Mozambique are increasingly kidnapping children as a warfare tactic, putting victims at risk of sexual violence, early marriage and being used as fighters in the country's worsening conflict, aid groups said on Wednesday.

Trump also suggested more countries should ban Twitter. Repressive governments like Iran and China already censor social media platforms like Twitter.

The death of a law student in eSwatini has caused uproar over allegations of police brutality, but the family says Thabani Nkomonye was just a passionate law student with big dreams.

Namibia's government came under fire from lawmakers for its 1.1-billion-euro settlement with Germany, under which Berlin officially acknowledged an early 20th century genocide by colonial troops.

Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh arrived in Cairo on Tuesday for the first in a series of talks this week between Egyptian authorities and Palestinian factions.

More than 3 300 people, most of them children, fled their homes in Burkina Faso's volatile north following the country's worst massacre in years, the United Nations said on Tuesday.

How did a foreign citizen disappear from Kenya's police headquarters and end up under arrest in Turkey, despite a court order banning his extradition?

When Nigeria's military claimed Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau had been badly wounded in an air strike 2016, the jihadist chief soon appeared in a video to deny another of the many reports of his impending death.

Nigerian television and radio stations should not use Twitter to gather information and have to de-activate their accounts, the broadcast authority said following the move to suspend the US social media giant in Africa's most populous country.

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo, June 7 - D emocratic Republic of Congo will start a phased return of residents who fled Goma in the aftermath of a volcanic eruption that destroyed thousands of homes and threatened to overrun the city, the govern

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has re-imposed a strict lockdown that included the closure of schools and the suspension of inter-district travel.

Senegal could start manufacturing Covid-19 vaccines as soon as next year, as part of a global push to boost vaccine production in Africa.

Senegal could begin producing Covid-19 vaccines next year under an agreement with Belgian biotech group Univercells aimed at boosting Africa's drug-manufacturing ambitions, a source involved in funding the project told Reuters.

Zimbabwe wants to ban forex auctions because of black-market concerns. Officials are concerned traders are selling foreign currency at inflated prices.

Nigerian pastor and televangelist TB Joshua has died, according to social media posts on his official Twitter account and news reports.

Suspected jihadists have massacred at least 138 civilians in Burkina Faso's volatile north in the deadliest attacks since Islamist violence erupted in the west African country in 2015, officials said Saturday.

Supporters of Mali's M5 opposition movement staged a rally on Friday, with the group poised to join the government following the crisis-stricken country's second coup in nine months.

Nigeria said on Friday it had indefinitely suspended Twitter's activities, two days after the social media giant removed a post from President Muhammadu Buhari that threatened to punish regional secessionists.