Two Benin opposition politicians sentenced this month to long jail terms will not appeal their sentences, their legal teams said on Monday.

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Tigrayan rebels announced on Monday they have withdrawn from two regions in northern Ethiopia and retreated to their Tigray stronghold, a new turning point in the brutal 13-month war.

Vaccine acceptance has shot up in Africa Union member states since the discovery of the omicron variant, a new study claims.

African airlines' performance in terms of increased air cargo volumes is the best of all regions in the world, reports the International Air Transport Association.

Nearly one in four people in Somalia are facing acute hunger as drought ravages the conflict-wracked country, following three seasons of poor rains and a fourth on the way, the United Nations warned Monday.

Armed cattle thieves killed 38 people Sunday in three separate attacks in northern Nigeria's Kaduna state, a local official said, the latest bloodshed to hit the region.

Ugandan pop star and opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu alias Bobi Wine released an end of year song on Monday dedicated to president Yoweri Museveni.

At least one policeman died on Monday in the eastern DR Congo city of Goma as police fired tear gas and live bullets to break up a protest against rising crime.

Thousands of refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo housed in Zambia's Mantapala Refugee Settlement will receive cash vouchers by Christmas.

Lesotho has instructed its security forces to ensure all citizens who work in neighbouring South Africa and returned home for the year-end holidays are inoculated against the coronavirus.

Turkey will send 15 million Covid-19 vaccine doses to Africa, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced.

Opposition activists in Sudan were set for new protests Sunday to mark the third anniversary of mass demonstrations that ended the dictatorship of president Omar al-Bashir as fears mount for the democratic transition.

Archeologists discovered a man and woman's mummified remains in a tomb at El Bahnasa, Egypt, buried with gold tongue-shaped amulets in their mouth.

The countrywide protests have been sparked because of the high cost of living, unemployment and a faltering economy.

The situation was made worse by the Covid-19 pandemic, the effects of which will be felt for years to come.

The South African government has agreed to donate more than two million doses of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine, worth R288.6, million to other African countries.

Cameroon's government must shift its focus from military-backed attacks to justice, in its efforts to quell violence in the country's Anglophone regions, Human Rights Watch says.

Lesotho's privately owned radio station 357 FM has been taken off the air and will only return to broadcasting on 10 January in what that country's Media Institute of Southern Africa says is a gag on media freedom.