A morsel of chocolate sits on the tongue, and a strong yet subtle flavour starts to blossom.

As the omicron variant of the coronavirus spreads, Zimbabwe is reporting record daily cases and its highest ever test positivity rate.

A Libyan political body has called for the 24 December presidential election to be delayed to February amid growing jostling over the rules and legal basis of a vote.

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Gunmen in Nigeria attacked a bus in the country's north western Sokoto state, causing a fire that killed 23 people, police and the governor's spokesperson said.

Two students have been killed and 12 injured when a truck rammed into them near their school in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos, police said.

Healthy-looking and lighter-skinned women and girls are at high risk of being kidnapped and sold as part of the sex slave trade in conflict-torn northern Cabo Delgado, according to a report.

The United States slapped fresh sanctions on a dozen Iranian officials and entities for "serious" human rights abuses Tuesday, ahead of the expected resumption of nuclear talks with Tehran after they halted last week without any concrete progress.

The surge of maritime piracy in Africa's Gulf of Guinea is not just a threat to foreign ship and cargo owners but also carries significant costs for the coastal nations, a new UN report said Tuesday.

Dozens of people suspected of committing crimes against humanity remain at large in the Central African Republic, where rebel and government forces are locked in low-level fighting, Amnesty International said on Wednesday.

British NGO Global Witness Wednesday urged the Democratic Republic of Congo to halt a dam project it said would flood part of a national park and be an "ecological catastrophe".

Health systems on the African continent have been severely impacted by the pressures of Covid-19.

At least five people dead as police officer goes on rampage in Nairobi with his service-issued AK-47 rifle.

After more than 80 weeks of closure, questions loom over the effect of the shutdown on students and teachers.

There is nothing glamorous about being a YouTuber in Rwanda, says John Williams Ntwali, whose channel Pax TV is a year old. The pay is poor, the threats frequent and the risk of prison all too real.

Vaccine alliance GAVI has announced the launch of a full-scale malaria vaccination programme.

Healthcare disruptions linked to the coronavirus pandemic helped malaria kill 69,000 more people in 2020 than the previous year, but a worst-case scenario was averted, the World Health Organization said on Monday.

Ethiopia's government said on Monday it had recaptured two strategic towns from rebel fighters, the latest in a rapid series of battlefield victories claimed by forces loyal to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.

James Owino, the lead researcher in a report titled "Durable solutions to migration challenges in East and the Horn", talks to News24 about the youth bulge and conflict.

A Zimbabwe court on Monday dropped a case against investigative journalist and government critic Hopewell Chin'ono, charged with inciting public violence last year for supporting banned demonstrations on Twitter.