Eritrean troops in Ethiopia's Tigray region are expected to "definitely leave soon," Ethiopia's U.N. envoy said after a top U.N. official told the Security Council on Tuesday that Eritrea's soldiers were using starvation as a wea

A Zimbabwean freelance reporter for the New York Times was granted bail Tuesday, three weeks after he was arrested over claims he helped two foreign colleagues enter the country fraudulently.

Nightclubs in the DR Congo must close and funeral wakes will be banned for two weeks in the face of a third wave of Covid cases, President Felix Tshisekedi said on Tuesday.

The United States said it would ban the entry of two former government ministers from Namibia whose alleged acceptance of bribes caused a political uproar in 2019.

After banning Twitter, Nigerian ministers apparently met with Chinese counterparts to discuss replicating China’s "Great Firewall" to regulate social media.

Burkina Faso's army has said that troops had killed around 10 "terrorists" in security operations following the deadliest massacre in the country's jihadist insurgency.

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Zambia's former president Kenneth Kaunda, 97, is being treated for pnuemonia at a military hospital in the capital Lusaka, his office said on Tuesday.

Egypt's highest civilian court has upheld death sentences for 12 senior Muslim Brotherhood figures over a 2013 sit-in which ended with security forces killing protesters.

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

At least 15 army recruits died on Tuesday when a suicide bomber attacked a military training camp in Mogadishu, Somalia, an officer said.

Ethiopia's national elections will draw in voters from seven of 10 semi-autonomous regions, highlighting the country's rich history and striking diversity.

Former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo is scheduled to arrive home on Thursday after being cleared of crimes against humanity for violence following the country's 2010 election.

Rising Covid-19 cases in Africa are "especially concerning" because the continent has the least amount of access to vaccines, diagnostics and oxygen, according to World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

A Ugandan military court has released on bail 18 supporters of singer-turned-opposition leader Bobi Wine detained since the start of the year.

Kenya said it will honour Somalia's invitation to restore diplomatic ties and reopen its embassy in Mogadishu.

Zambia's founding father and former president Kenneth Kaunda has been admitted to hospital, his office said Monday.

Lagos-based entrepreneur Ogechi Egemonu was selling more than $1 219 worth of watches, shoes and handbags on Twitter per week.

Algeria was early on Monday still waiting for the results of a parliamentary election boycotted by the long-running Hirak protest movement and marked by widespread abstention.

Zambian leader Edgar Lungu on Sunday suffered an attack of dizziness that prompted a sudden halt to television coverage of an official ceremony in the southern African nation, the cabinet secretary said.