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A French court on Tuesday jailed a former senior Rwandan official for 20 years after finding him guilty of complicity in the African nation's genocide.

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On 9 July, the African Union turned 20 and the debate about its effectiveness so far is on the table once again.

Zimbabwe’s central bank has approved a regulation that will allow the country’s power utility, Zimbabwe Power Company, to bill the exporters of goods and services in dollars, euros and other foreign currencies.

Retailers in Zimbabwe are further rejecting the Zimbabwean dollar by pricing their goods and services in US dollars amid a demand by government workers that their salaries be pegged to the US currency.

The United Nations report on Children and Armed Conflict details the "horrific conditions" experienced in conflict zones.

The Human Rights Watch has welcomed an investigation into the killing of nine people by the Cameroonian national army as a positive step towards transparency and accountability.

A staff sergeant deployed as part of Operation Vikela, South Africa's contribution to the Southern African Development Community Mission in Mozambique, has died in a Pemba hospital.

It all started in 1984, when a veterinarian, spurred on to find a sustainable way of ensuring abalone, a mollusc commonly known as perlemoen found in the swaying kelp forests off the West Coast of Africa, wouldn't go extinct.

Angola's former president Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who ruled Africa's second biggest oil producer for nearly four decades, has died aged 79, the Angolan presidency said on Facebook on Friday.

Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo's first step to mending fences will be through the "Luanda Mechanism" talks, which will get underway on 12 July.

Fresh clashes between M23 rebels and soldiers erupted in eastern DRC on Thursday, officials said, as the militia declared that it was not bound by a ceasefire agreement.

The World Health Organisation has announced the end of the 14th Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. News24 talks to Dr Mory Keita, WHO's incident manager for the Ebola outbreak, about how they managed to end the recent outbreak.

Pfizer will now supply the Covid-19 pill that is highly effective in preventing hospitalisations and deaths.

In 1966, Malawi gained independence from Britain with then-president Hastings Kamuzu Banda, a historically divisive figure, being the only African leader having full diplomatic relations with apartheid South Africa.

Duration Gold, the mining company doing exploration work at the Oppenheimer family's ranch in Zimbabwe, says it's carrying out "game-changing" work in line with the president's aim to build a R192-billion mining industry.

Suspected jihadists using guns and explosives smashed their way into a prison near the Nigerian capital, freeing hundreds of inmates in an operation to release jailed comrades, the government said on Wednesday.

Rwandan President Paul Kagame says, if the diplomatic standoff with his Democratic Republic of Congo counterpart Felix Tshisekedi is not resolved amicably, it could "find me prepared for the worst".

An autopsy has been carried out on in Spain on former Angolan president Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who died last week in Barcelona, at the request of one of his daughters who suspects foul play, her lawyers said on Monday.