Africa has double the average rate of women-led fintechs, but from 2013 to 2021 less than 5% of $12.6 billion in funding to Africa's tech startups went to fintechs led only by women

The death toll from an accidental explosion at an illegal gold mine in southwestern Burkina Faso rose to 63, the authorities said, adding that they had made an arrest.

Covid-19 has killed at least 5 892 084 people since the outbreak emerged in China in December 2019, according to an AFP tally.

A petition to stop the forced resettlement of more than 70 000 Maasai people from northern Tanzania was handed to the country's president on the sidelines of the recently ended European Union-African Union Summit in Brussels, Belgium.

Mozambique on Monday said the portal hosting government websites was hit by a cyberattack forcing it to take the system offline for several hours.

There's been an uproar in Namibia over the country's capture and auction of 57 elephants worth R5.9 million.

Ethiopia began generating electricity from its mega-dam on the Blue Nile on Sunday, a milestone in the controversial multi-billion dollar project.

Credit Suisse Group AG managed accounts for clients involved in human rights abuses, corruption and drug trafficking, according to newspaper reports based on leaked data on more than 18,000 accounts that together held more than $100 billion.

Sudanese security forces have fired tear gas at protesters demonstrating against last year's military coup, an AFP correspondent said, as a United Nations human rights expert arrived in the country.

An air strike by the Nigerian army targeting 'bandits' has left seven children dead and five others wounded "by mistake" in the Maradi region of southern Niger, a local governor told AFP on Sunday.

Zimbabwe's main opposition party has said at least 80 of its supporters were arrested while campaigning door to door ahead of crunch parliamentary by-elections next month, the party said.

With little over a month before by-elections in Zimbabwe, political violence, allegations of police brutality and unfair conduct by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission have surfaced.

Tonga says space entrepreneur and Tesla founder Elon Musk has donated 50 satellite terminals to help the volcano-damaged Pacific island reconnect with the world.

An Islamic State-linked group killed around 40 civilians this week in a northern region of Mali that has been plagued by clashes between rival jihadist groups, local sources told AFP.

An explosion has killed at least 17 people in Nigeria's southwestern Ogun state, after a vehicle collided with a fuel tanker on a busy highway, emergency services said.

Malawi has declared a polio outbreak after a case was detected in a young child in the capital Lilongwe, the first case of wild poliovirus in Africa in more than five years, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.

Xylitol, a sugar substitute normally used in gum and which is prescribed for dental hygiene purposes, can also reduce chances of preterm births, a study that was conducted in Malawi has revealed.

Fighting in northern Ethiopia's Afar region has "engulfed" a camp housing refugees from neighbouring Eritrea, the UN said on Friday, killing five and forcing thousands to flee.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday that six African countries - Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Tunisia - would be the first on the continent to receive the technology needed to produce mRNA vaccines.

The President of the European Union Commission has urged the European Union and African Union to work towards economic and social dynamism for the two continents.