Clement Chiwaya, 50, killed himself inside the parliament building in Lilongwe.

Somalia's first public oxygen plant opened, in a ray of hope for a country where a lifesaving treatment for the coronavirus has been largely unavailable to patients during the pandemic.

Sudan is making progress as it reconnects with the global economy but patience is needed as the country seeks to tackle shortages and attract investment, the visiting head of the World Bank said on Thursday.

Kenyan judge declares that being a housewife is a full-time job, payable by monthly compensation.

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Children's textbooks, utensils, clothing and crops: all lost to rising floodwaters that have forced tens of thousands of people in South Sudan to leave their wrecked homes as overflowing rivers deluge farmland and swallow up livestock.

The latest South African stock exchange opens on Thursday pledging to lure firms from across the continent with listing costs that are a third of that charged by the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.

A Libyan youth leader was abducted by unidentified gunmen after calling for demonstrations in support of scheduled December elections, the UN said, voicing concern for his safety.

Egypt is pushing ahead with a new project to restore historic Cairo, a sprawling but now rapidly crumbling thousand-year-old world heritage site home to many a tale in the Thousand and One Arabian Nights.

The World Health Organization's regional director for Africa said that the agency was "heartbroken" by the findings of an independent commission on sex abuse in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Independent investigators mandated by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to probe allegations of sexual abuse by its staff in the DR Congo cited "clear structural failures" and "individual negligence" in a report released on Tuesday.

Egyptian researcher Patrick Zaki, held for 19 months since being arrested on a trip home from Italy, faced trial on Tuesday on charges of spreading false news over an article he wrote about the plight of Egypt's Christians.

Facebook and other investors in the 2Africa subsea communications cable on Tuesday unveiled plans for an 8,000-kilometre extension.

For Veli Rabo, a 28-year-old Nigerien, the idea of finding a job has almost become a joke.

Nigerian troops killed scores of Islamist insurgents and suffered casualties among their own ranks during heavy fighting around a remote army base on the border with Niger, the military said on Monday.

A new craze for a drug derived from crushed vehicle exhaust filters is rattling authorities in Kinshasa, triggering a campaign to stamp out the concoction and a related rash of car part thefts.

Gunmen who kidnapped more than 100 students from a school in northwest Nigeria more than two months ago have released 10 more of the hostages after ransom payment.

Mali has asked private Russian companies to boost security, Russia's foreign minister has confirmed, as the Malian leader accused France of abandoning the conflict-ridden country.

A former Rwandan army colonel who was accused of masterminding the slaughter of 800 000 people during the 1994 genocide has died in prison in Mali, Malian officials have said.

Sudan is in talks with protesters to lift a port blockade that has halted the shipment of South Sudanese oil and threatens the two nations’ economies.