Central African Republic's Special Criminal Court, a hybrid court of local and foreign magistrates charged with trying war crimes and crimes against humanity committed since 2003, opens its first trial on Tuesday, seven years after its formation.

Divers have inspected the hull of the tanker that sank off Tunisia’s coast with 750 tonnes of diesel.

Elvis Nyathi is the Zimbabwean man who was brutally killed and set alight by an angry mob in Johannesburg's Diepsloot last week.

Mali's army has said that it had killed "a dozen terrorists" including a French-Tunisian jihadist in air strikes in the centre of the Sahel nation.

Some countries have offered to help Tunisia prevent damage to the environment after a merchant ship carrying up to one thousand tons of oil sank off the coast of Gabes.

Nigeria's airforce said Saturday that it had killed more than 70 Islamic State affiliated fighters in the north of the country, at the border with Niger.

The WHO director-general said the attention Ukraine received is "very important," but that Black and Brown countries don't get a "fraction" of that.

Food, fuel inflation pushes up shopping bills in Nigeria and rising diesel costs have also driven prices even higher.

At least 35 people died and 71 were injured in Zimbabwe when a bus carrying churchgoers to an Easter gathering veered off the road and landed in a gorge, police said Friday.

A fire at a substation has caused widespread power outages and water cuts across Johannesburg.

Botswana says it should take its place among liberation movements in southern Africa, despite not getting independence through an armed struggle like many of its neighbours.

Two years after pledging 500 elephants to Mozambique as a gift, Botswana says the animals are set to be translocated soon.

The Zimbabwean government deported about 70 refugees back to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in violation of international humanitarian law, the United States Embassy in Harare has said.

Intensified intercommunal clashes in the Abyei Administrative Area in South Sudan between February and March led to the displacement of up to 100 000 people, the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund has said.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will seek to move on from the uproar caused by his Covid-19 lockdown fine by announcing a plan to fly asylum seekers to Rwanda to be processed.

It was market day in the town of Moura in central Mali when Malian troops backed by white mercenaries descended in helicopters and opened fire on bewildered residents, according to witnesses' accounts.

Seven Niger police officers and four soldiers were killed on Tuesday in two separate attacks near the country's borders with Burkina Faso and Libya, the government said on Wednesday.

South Africa's military chief said Wednesday that multinational forces had been able to "disrupt" jihadist rebels in northern Mozambique since their deployment there last year.

Inna Koviao Hengari, from the Popular Democratic Movement, said a salary cut for the Namibian president would be an act of good faith.

Ivory Coast Prime Minister Patrick Achi tabled his resignation and that of his government on Wednesday, President Alassane Ouattara said during a cabinet meeting during which he accepted the resignation without providing further detail.