A senior Doctors Without Borders official who visited Ethiopia said that federal authorities refused to meet her to discuss their investigation into the killing of three staff from the medical charity in the war-torn Tigray region.

Thirteen scrap-metal collectors in northeast Nigeria's Borno state were killed when a bomb they excavated blew up, security sources told AFP on Tuesday.

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Journalists and media activists in Kenya fear a repeat of the harassment they endured during the 2017 general elections as the country goes to the polls on 9 August.

The International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia has started to investigate war crimes in Ethiopia, and the transitional government of Tigray has called on it to be impartial.

A new Tunisian constitution that the opposition warns may dismantle the country's democracy by greatly expanding presidential powers is set to take effect after a referendum on Monday.

Russia's RT channel has embarked on expansion plans in Africa, starting to set up headquarters on the continent in South Africa where the Kremlin-funded TV channel is carried and supported by China.

Thirty-three people were killed when a bus plunged into a river at a notorious accident blackspot in central Kenya, officials said.

A father who allegedly wanted to sell his three children with albinism for use in witchcraft rituals was arrested in Mozambique before being able to close the deal, police said.

The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has debuted gold coins selling at R30 753.60 and have a local value of ZW$805 745.35 by Monday's prices.

Due to a legacy of human rights violations back home and political assassinations abroad, one of them in South Africa in 2014, the United States Senate committee on foreign relations has called for a "more effective US policy" on Rwanda.

The UN, Turkey, Ukraine, and Russia have agreed to a plan for Ukraine to resume grain and fertiliser exports via the Black Sea to Africa and other international markets.

Turnout is expected to be low, as opponents boycott a vote they see as giving the president dictatorial powers.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has destroyed fields of food, and the country's troops have blocked ports that would export grain.

An Egyptian court called on Sunday for a legal amendment to allow the live broadcast of the execution of the killer of a female student, as a deterrent to frequent homicides.

The Malian army have said it had thwarted a new attack on a military camp in the centre of the country, two days after a deadly suicide attack in a strategic garrison town near the capital.

One of Kenya's two leading presidential candidates, Raila Odinga, will not take part in an upcoming electoral debate, his campaign team said Sunday, accusing his principal rival of trying to avoid certain topics such as corruption.

When President Cyril Ramaphosa signed six agreements with his Ivorian counterpart, Alassane Ouattara, he cautioned against Africa's reliance on European countries for essential food commodities.

Reuben E Brigety II has been announced as the new US ambassador to South Africa.

Different spheres of government in Nigeria are failing to invest in the youth which creates fertile ground for criminal or violent armed groups to exploit vulnerable and susceptible youngsters to join their cause, argues Jaynisha Patel and Emmanuel B...