The death toll from an Ebola outbreak in Uganda has risen to seven, the health ministry said Friday, after President Yoweri Museveni ruled out a lockdown to contain the highly contagious virus.

Zimbabwe wants gold, diamond and platinum miners to pay half of their royalties to the government in the commodities themselves and the rest in cash, as the southern African country seeks to build its mineral reserves.

Heavy gunfire rang out from the main military camp and some residential areas of Burkina Faso's capital on Friday and a large blast was heard near the presidential palace, Reuters reporters said.

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Botswana celebrates 56 years of independence on Friday. Despite one party dominating the political landscape since independence, Botswana has been a model democracy in southern Africa.

A Zimbabwe court Thursday found award-winning novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga guilty of "inciting violence" after she held up a sign calling for reform at a small protest during the coronavirus pandemic.

The recently released International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia report shows that both Tigrayan and Ethiopian Defence Forces fighting against each other were responsible for gross human rights violations.

Rhino poaching in Namibia is picking up, and officials suspect international syndicates are shifting their focus from South Africa.

The US blames Eritrea for playing a central role in the resumption of conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region and called for Eritreans to "withdraw to their borders immediately".

The East African Court of Justice will hand down a ruling in a case where the Tanzanian government is being sued by the Maasai people over it's plan to relocate them from their ancestral land in order to create a wildlife corridor for trophy hunting ...

At least 22 people were killed when two Ugandan military helicopters crashed in east Democratic Republic of Congo, a Congo army spokesman who asked not to be named told Reuters on Wednesday.

Botswana has resumed some exports of live cattle and beef from areas declared free of foot and mouth disease (FMD).

Over the past three years, the Southern African Development Community has marked 25 October as Zimbabwe Anti-Sanctions Day. However, sanctions in Zimbabwe have divided opinion.

Kenyan President William Ruto on Tuesday named his first cabinet after winning a divisive election in August and defending his narrow victory in the country's highest court.

With just about two months before the 2022 FIFA World Cup begins in Qatar, calls have mounted for African countries to seek justice for their citizens who have worked in Qatar's construction and tourism sectors under abusive working conditions.

As Lesotho goes to the polls on 7 October, policing will be top of mind for many citizens

Democratic Republic of Congo has declared the end of its latest Ebola virus outbreak in the eastern province of North Kivu, Health Minister Jean-Jacques Mbungani Mbanda said in a statement on Tuesday.

Zimbabweans who have returned to their home country after working and studying for years in South Africa are battling to rebuild their lives.

With Nigeria's economy struggling and insecurity rife, four top presidential candidates start campaigning this week for next February's election in an open race to replace President Muhammadu Buhari.

The World Health Organisation says the Ebola that recently broke out in Uganda, called the Sudan strain, is not as lethal as the Zaire strain found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.