Eight people were killed and about 50 injured in a crush outside a Cameroonian football stadium ahead of an Africa Cup of Nations match.

Malawi's President Lazarus Chakwera has dissolved the country's entire cabinet in charges of corruption on some of his ministers, he said in an address to the nation.

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Zimbabwe's main opposition leader announced his party will drop its storied but contested name, sidestepping factional squabbles and a legal dispute.

Botswana's president has vowed to fully implement a 2019 court ruling decriminalising homosexuality, two months after losing an appeal that sought to overturn it.

African Union Commission chief Moussa Faki Mahamat has condemned an "attempted coup" in Burkina Faso after the country's president was reportedly detained following a mutiny by soldiers.

More than 1 000 Anglophone people arrested between 2016 and 2021 in relation to the Anglophone crisis, are behind bars in at least 10 prisons across the country, including 650 in Buea, 280 in Yaoundé, 181 in Douala and 101 in Bafoussam. Dozens have ...

Behind gunfire, rape, kidnappings, destruction of public infrastructure, and a man-made hunger crisis in Cabo Delgado there are key drivers that should be dealt with if lasting peace is to be achieved in the insurgent-hit Mozambican province.

Gaborone High Court Judge, Christopher Gabanagae, has ruled in favour of a local company Fresh Standard (Pty) Ltd, in a first of its its kind case, in the country involving the cultivation and processing of cannabis sativa and industrial hemp.

Burkina Faso President Roch Kabore has been detained at a military camp by mutinying soldiers, according to four security sources and a West African diplomat, following heavy gunfire around his residence on Sunday night in the capital Ouagadougou.

In a bid to get youngsters off the streets, a Zimbabwean self-proclaimed prophet is offering up to R2 million in a bible verse challenge.

Zimbabwe's central bank and business leaders met Friday to explore ways to halt the plunge of the local currency against the US dollar, the Sunday Mail newspaper reported.

Cameroon's government said that 16 people were killed in a fire caused by fireworks in a nightclub in the capital Yaounde.

Nigeria's giant new Dangote oil refinery will start processing crude in the third quarter of this year.

CONAKRY, Jan 22 - Guinea's junta on Saturday set up an 80-member council to act as a parliament during the country's transition to elections, according to a decree read on the state broadcaster, following a coup in September that ousted President Al

Gunshots were heard in several barracks in Burkina Faso on Sunday, including two in the capital Ouagadougou, military sources and residents told AFP.

The Malawi government has revoked the diplomatic status of eight recalled diplomats who had refused to leave the United States in a stand-off over the shipping home of their personal effects.

Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the powerful son of Uganda's president, arrived in Rwanda on Saturday to meet President Paul Kagame for a visit that marks warming relations between the neighbouring countries after years of tension.

Ethiopia's military is planning to enter the Tigray regional capital of Mekelle and "eliminate" rebellious forces, a top military official has said amid diplomatic efforts to end conflict in the country's north.

Sudan's second most powerful leader was heading to Ethiopia on Saturday, a rare visit by an official from Khartoum that comes amid border tensions, state media said.