Zimbabwean public servants have rejected an offer for a 100% pay increase from the government of the Southern African nation where inflation surged to 132% last month.

A Democratic Republic of Congo soldier who allegedly opened fired on soldiers and civilians on Rwandan soil was shot dead on Friday morning, said the Rwandan Defence Force.

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While the world grapples with monkeypox, science from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where the first case was detected in 1970, could lead the way in eradicating the disease.

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Voters in southwestern Nigeria's Ekiti state will go to the polls on Saturday to elect a new governor in what could be a bellwether for who wins next year's presidential election.

Security has deteriorated in two provinces in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo since the government placed them under military rule last year, UN experts said on Friday.

Gunmen were travelling on motorcycles near Niger’s border with Burkina Faso, France’s military says.

A gunman on a rampage killed seven people and seriously wounded two others across four villages in northeastern Cameroon, a local administrator and state television said on Thursday.

African countries have documented 1 597 suspected cases of monkeypox since the start of 2022, of which 66 have been fatal, the acting director of Africa's top public health agency Ahmed Ogwell Ouma said on Thursday.

Experts have warned that Rwanda has no capacity to take these asylum seekers, and that going ahead will create a regional crisis.

One of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta's last international engagements before he steps down from power could be helping mediate an end to the war in Ethiopia.

The New York Times' Zimbabwe contributor Jeffrey Moyo says he is scared after being fined and handed a five-year suspended sentence in a case where he was accused of breaching the country's immigration laws.

South Africa’s decision to end special permits that allow 178 000 Zimbabweans to live and work in the country is to be challenged in court by the Helen Suzman Foundation.

Arbay Mahad Qasim has already lost two children to a vicious drought, and now the Somali villager fears she could lose a third as her malnourished toddler Ifrah awaits treatment in a Mogadishu hospital.

The Rwandan government said on Wednesday it was still committed to taking in asylum seekers sent by the UK under a controversial deal after a first flight was cancelled following a European court ruling.

A first flight carrying asylum seekers to Rwanda as part of a controversial UK policy was cancelled on Tuesday in an embarrassing blow to Prime Minister Boris Johnson government.

Kenya's government has expressed its regret over the presence of the flag of Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia, at a diplomatic function after an angry Mogadishu accused Nairobi of violating its sovereignty.

The environment ministry says 11 black rhinos were recently killed and their horns removed.

The European Court of Human Rights confirmed it had issued an order preventing the deportation of one individual due to be on the first flight of migrants from Britain to Rwanda due to depart hours later.