A flight carrying Afghan evacuees fleeing the Taliban takeover of their country has touched down in Uganda where they will be given temporary refuge.

In an inauguration that hosted both heads of state and opposition leaders, including President Cyril Ramaphosa and Mmusi Maimane, newly elected President Hakainde Hichilema promised to restore the economy and stamp out corruption.

Nigeria has recently approved China's Sinopharm vaccine against Covid-19, the head of the country's primary healthcare agency said.

Hissene Habre, the first African leader convicted of war crimes, has died at the age of 79.

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Zambia's newly-elected leader Hakainde Hichilema takes office after a comprehensive election victory hailed as a rare triumph over authoritarianism.

Ethiopia is developing its own social media platforms to rival US-owned sites such as Facebook and Twitter, the country's intelligence and cybersecurity agency has said.

Zimbabwe’s state electricity company is awaiting the outcome of international arbitration in a currency dispute with the country’s biggest private power producer that’s holding up other investments.

A DR Congo soldier accused of attempted rape shot dead the father of his victim, as well as three other people, before being killed himself by the security forces, local police said.

Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan has come under fire for remarks about women footballers having "flat chests" and suggesting they would not be attractive candidates for marriage.

The justice and correctional services ministry says Manuel Manuel Chang will be extradited to Maputo to face charges linked to Mozambique’s largest corruption scandal.

The largest corruption trial in Mozambican history is too big for a courtroom and is being held in a tent.

A Belgian lawyer for the man whose story inspired the film "Hotel Rwanda", who is being tried on terrorism charges, has been deported for working without a permit, the head of Rwanda's immigration service said.

Egypt is to close the Rafah crossing on its border with the Gaza Strip until further notice, Egyptian security sources have announced.

Bandits have released 15 more students kidnapped last month from a Baptist school in northwest Nigeria, officials have told Reuters.

An attack by suspected jihadists on a village in western Niger's troubled "three-border" region has killed 19 people and injured two, the Nigerien interior ministry has said.

Chad has said it will recall 600 troops, half its contingent, from the multinational G5 Sahel force in the troubled three-borders region of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, where an upsurge in jihadist violence has cost thousands of lives.

Zimbabwe is to open talks about compensation for victims of a notorious 1980s massacre that took place when former president Robert Mugabe was in power.

The International Air Transport Association says a number of countries are preventing nearly $1 billion of airline revenues from being repatriated.

Zimbabwean authorities on Friday charged a man with murder after his 14-year-old wife died at a religious shrine last month of complications due to childbirth.