South Africa remains the country that has recorded the most infections and deaths in Africa since the pandemic began.

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday praised the West Africa's regional bloc ECOWAS for developing what he called a "decisive" anti-coup strategy.

The European Union has begun funding the African Union's peace and security initiatives to the tune of R10 billion for the next three years.

Rwanda's Food and Drug Authority said in a press release that "the products are being recalled because they were manufactured in a facility where Salmonella Typhimurium was detected".

Senate outlaws the paying of ransoms to kidnappers and made abduction punishable by death.

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.