A Rwandan beauty pageant organiser and well-known former musician was arrested on Tuesday over sexual assault accusations, police said.

The remains of more than one hundred victims killed in a weekend explosion of an illegal oil refinery in southern Nigeria were buried on Tuesday evening in three mass graves, officials said.

A donor conference organized in Geneva has raised $1.39 billion for the Horn of Africa, where an ongoing drought threatens millions of people with severe food insecurity, the UN announced Tuesday.

The conflict and upcoming reconstruction of the oil and gas-rich Cabo Delgado province in Mozambique is a stage for local, regional and international actors' selfish interests.

The US Navy, providing maritime security with its USS Hershel "Woody" Williams ship operating in the Gulf of Guinea, bust illicit drug trafficking syndicates and fishing worth more than R5 billion in one of its most recent operations.

MTN says the penetration of financial services and e-commerce is marginal, but instead of presenting a challenge, the conditions offer opportunities.

South Africa is dealing with the impact of floods in KwaZulu-Natal, which left thousands homeless, over 400 dead and 72 people still missing.

The death of a 31-year-old man in the north-western Équateur Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo has marked the start of the 14th Ebola outbreak just a few months after the last outbreak came to an end.

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has cancelled his state visit to Zimbabwe to mourn after the death of his predecessor Emilio Stanley Mwai Kibaki.

The Zimbabwe dollar weakened 24% in the first quarter, while on the black market it depreciated about 20%.

In two months, there has been a rapid rise in food-insecure children in the Horn of Africa, pushing the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund to revise its budgetary requirements up by 52%.

South Africa and Botswana are seeking to ratify 40 agreements and memoranda of understanding through the Bi-National Commission, as the two economies try to recover from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Kibaki’s legacy was marred when irregularities during a re-election bid ended in deadly violence.

Robert Mugabe Jr says he didn't have the freedom to choose where and who he wanted to be.

Aspen is in talks with African leaders about how to raise demand for Covid-19 vaccines after the continent’s biggest drugmaker warned a lack of orders may force it to stop making the shots.

Islamic State claimed responsibility for an explosion that it said killed or injured 30 people at a market where alcohol was sold in Taraba State, Nigeria.

Rwandan President Paul Kagame says the UK approached him over the sending of refugees from the UK to his country because he helped refugees during his time as African Union chairperson.

The Chinese embassy in Rwanda has pleaded for the rights of its citizens to be protected after a Chinese businessman was jailed for 20 years for torturing employees.

President Cyril Ramaphosa extended the deployment of SANDF troops in Mozambique for a year, at a cost of R2.8 billion.

The transitional government of Tigray, in an open letter to United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, said it was more than willing to see a peaceful end to the conflict in Ethiopia, but if peace was not on the table, then it could resort ...