Mozambique's President Filipe Nyusi and his wife Isaura have tested positive for Covid-19 and are isolating, the president's office said on Monday.

The International Monetary Fund in its 2022 outlook says the biggest negative factors affecting African economies this year will be the Covid-19 pandemic and the accelerating pace of climate change, both of which underscore the need for increased glo...

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Botswana's President Mokgweetsi Masisi is in mandatory self- isolation after testing positive for Covid-19 in routine testing, a government spokesperson said on Monday.

Detained Tunisian politician Noureddine Bhiri has been rushed to hospital in a "critical condition", activists and lawmakers said on Sunday.

Richard Leakey, a Kenyan conservationist and paleoanthropologist who spearheaded campaigns against the ivory trade to save the dwindling African elephant population, has died, the Kenyan presidency said on Sunday. He was 77.

Sudan's civilian Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok resigned Sunday, more than two months after a coup and following another deadly crackdown on protesters, with the military now firmly in control.

Security forces fired tear gas at anti-military protesters in Sudan's capital Khartoum, televised images showed, as demonstrators marched towards the presidential palace in the 12th round of major protests since a coup on 25 October.

Five people were killed during a crackdown by Sudanese security forces on nationwide protests against military rule on Dec. 30, a doctors' committee said on Friday.

A South African-registered car with a tracker helped police in Zimbabwe hunt down an armed seven-member gang.

Nearly 4 000 Mozambicans have fled their villages in a month due to intensifying jihadist attacks in Niassa, a province neighbouring insurgency hotbed Cabo Delgado, a government official said Friday.

Mali's army said eight soldiers died during an attack in a western area of the Sahel nation where jihadist forces operate, doubling the previous toll.

Dozens of civilians were reportedly killed last week in a barrage of air strikes in Ethiopia's conflict-wracked northernmost Tigray region, the highest casualties recorded since October, the UN's emergency-response agency said on Thursday.

Three Tanzanian peacekeepers were injured on Thursday when their vehicle struck an explosive device in the western part of the Central African Republic, according to the local UN mission, MINUSCA.

Sudanese security forces shot dead four people during a crackdown on nationwide protests on Thursday, a doctors' committee said, as tens of thousands of people marched against military rule.

The kwacha has advanced 27% against the dollar this year, largely on the back of optimism over the August election victory of Hakainde Hichilema.

The Famine Early Warning Systems Network said more than 20 million people in Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya will need urgent humanitarian food assistance in 2022.

French car manufacturer Citroen withdrew on Thursday an advertisement featuring Egyptian singer Amr Diab after it sparked widespread accusations of promoting the harassment of women.

Somalia's al Shabaab fighters attacked a town north of the capital Mogadishu on Thursday, killing at least seven people as they fought government security forces, a police officer and residents said.

Four Malian soldiers were killed and around a dozen others were wounded when they were attacked in the west of the county, the army said on Thursday.