A month-long joint operation by Rwandan security forces and the SADC Mission in Mozambique (SAMIM) in the Macomia district of Cabo Delgado has restored life to normal.

Cabo Verde and Niger are the only two African countries that have signed 'The Declaration for the Future of the Internet'.

A three-storey mainly residential building has collapsed in Lagos, killing eight people and injuring 23 others who were rescued and taken to hospitals, the emergency services have said.

Chad's military government has announced it is postponing the start of landmark national talks with opposition forces and rebels, as preparatory negotiations between the two sides drag out in Qatar.

Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa is trying to emulate Russian President Vladimir Putin in his attempt to revive Africa’s worst performing currency.

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said his government would hike the country's minimum wage by 12% immediately to help workers cope with a surge in consumer prices, driven in part by the war in Ukraine.

Zimbabwe is working on measures to increase confidence in the local money as it wants to de-dollarise its currency.

The teenage refugee from the war-torn region of Tigray in Ethiopia had just had a narrow escape from drowning in the Mediterranean Sea - like countless others before him.

US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman will start her four-nation tour in South Africa on Tuesday and will then go to, Angola, Gabon and France.

A court in eSwatini, Africa's last absolute monarchy where homosexuality is still banned, has rejected a bid by the country's leading LGBTQ rights group for official recognition, the group has said.

One of Algeria's leading opposition figures, Karim Tabbou, has been arrested again, rights groups have said.

Twenty-seven years after the Rwandan genocide, five central figures are yet to be located and brought to book, with the US State Department putting up US$5 million (around R80 million) for information leading to their capture.

Despite a "definitive" ban from operating in Mali, France 24 television and radio service RFI say they will work on providing technical solutions to ensure Malians can continue to have access to information.

Uganda is open to the idea of sending troops to fight insurgents in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado region, President Yoweri Museveni says.

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.