In early March 16 African countries including South Africa abstained from voting on a resolution in the UN General Assembly calling on Russia to end its military operations in Ukraine. Olayinka Ajala examines five reasons why African countries have c...

Ministers from the Southern African Development Community will meet in Pretoria, on Sunday to discuss the possible extension of troop deployment in northern Mozambique.

About 20 civilians were killed in a night attack on a gold mine in Burkina Faso's restive north, local sources said Saturday.

Uganda has said it had deported a leading figure in a banned Rwandan opposition group, in a further sign of warming ties between Kampala and Kigali after years of tensions.

Waheen market, home to an estimated 2 000 shops and stalls, was gutted by the fire which started on Friday evening.

Mali's army said Friday that it had killed 203 combatants in an operation in the centre of Sahel state, an apparent uptick in violence in the conflict-torn country.

Through Chess in Slums Africa, an initiative to provide teaching and mentorship to underprivileged kids, Tunde and his crew have managed to keep children in school, away from child labour, and to help reconfigure their mindsets.

The number of out-of-school children in South Africa tripled from 250 000 to 750 000 between March 2020 and July 2021, a new Unicef report says.

Gunmen suspected to be from Ethiopia's Amhara region killed 26 people and injured 15 in an ambush on a vehicle carrying militia in neighbouring Oromiya, local officials said.

The mini truce in Ethiopia has been welcomed by the international community, but it was not enough to stop the United States Senate from passing the Ethiopia Peace and Stabilisation Act of 2022.

At least seven bodies were recovered and about a dozen people were missing after a boat carrying mostly women and children capsized in north-central Nigeria on Wednesday, residents said.

Kenya's top court will on Thursday rule on constitutional changes proposed by President Uhuru Kenyatta and his allies ahead of crucial elections in August.

The vaccine will be produced in Botswana by NantBotswana, a joint venture between the Botswana government and South Africa-born billionaire Dr Patrick Soon-Shiong's NantWorks.

Marry Mubaiwa, the estranged wife of Zimbabwe's vice-president, Constantino Chiwenga, is set to have her right hand amputated.

German long-haul holiday carrier Eurowings Discover will fly into Zimbabwe's prime tourism destination, Victoria Falls, three times a week from Frankfurt.

Zimbabwe has begun repossessing idle land from black farmers who benefitted from controversial land reforms two decades ago, Agriculture Minister Anxious Masuka said Wednesday.

Ghana will start producing its own Covid-19 vaccines in January 2024, President Nana Akufo-Addo said on Wednesday in his State of the Nation Address in Parliament.

Eight UN peacekeepers - six Pakistanis, a Russian and a Serb - were killed on Tuesday when a Puma helicopter crashed in the troubled eastern Democratic republic of Congo, UN and Pakistani officials said.

It was the second edition of the female competition and the first time that the competition also had a division for gentlemen.

Zimbabwe's general election is still a year away, but pro-democracy activists say they are worried last weekend's by-elections offered a preview of the violence and repression to come.