Six midwives in Senegal have been charged over a pregnant woman's death in hospital this month, their lawyer said, in an affair that sparked outrage in the West African nation.

MRM is owned by Gem Fields Group, a London headquartered company. Its biggest operation is the Montepuez ruby deposit in Cabo Delgado.

An explosive device went off in a bar in Nigeria's northeastern Taraba state on Tuesday, killing three people and injuring 19, police told AFP.

The African Union has availed R2.26 million from its Emergency Fund for the South African government's emergency response and rescue of those affected by the floods in KwaZulu-Natal.

Kenya's Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions says it will prioritise corruption and criminal activities linked to the general elections slated for 9 August.

Twenty million people are at risk of starvation this year as delayed rains worsen an already brutal drought in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia, the UN warned.

Pro-democracy groups led by South Africa's Economic Freedom Fighters have given Eswatini's King Mswati III a year to abdicate.

The "debt-trap diplomacy" around China's takeover of strategic assets of African countries that supposedly fail to service loans, is an appealing narrative for politicians but lacks evidence, a report states.

Two drunken Congolese soldiers have gunned down a total of 15 people in separate attacks in volatile eastern DR Congo, authorities said Monday.

Three weeks after the mini-truce in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, an underwhelming 4% of required food aid has reached targeted areas.

A female Nigerian tourist in Zanzibar has broken her silence on how she was almost raped on her birthday at a resort in April 2021.

On Zimbabwe's inaugural Independence Day in 1980, Tanzanian president Julius "Mwalimu" Nyerere, in front of a packed Rufaro stadium in Harare, told the late President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe that he had inherited the "Jewel of Africa".

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.