From South Africa, where unprecedented floods this month washed away farmland, to the excessive logging of Kenya's mountain forests, Africa is fast losing healthy land, putting millions of people at risk of hunger and losing their homes and incomes.

Rwandan President Paul Kagame says being a celebrity cannot put one above the country's laws.

Twenty Muslim worshippers were killed in Ethiopia's Amhara region in clashes with unidentified armed men, an Islamic leader in the region said.

The relationship between France and its former colony continues to deteriorate as Mali continues engagements with Russia.

African countries are being urged to move toward integrating routine immunisation programmes with Covid-19 ones to cover lost ground.

The Democratic Republic of Congo has kicked off Ebola vaccinations to stem an outbreak in the northwest city of Mbandaka, the World Health Organisation has said.

The Central African Republic has adopted bitcoin as legal tender, the president's office said Wednesday, becoming the second country in the world to do so behind El Salvador.

Two people have died within a week in Mbandaka in the Équateur province in the latest outbreak of the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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.