Uganda President Yoweri Museveni has removed his son, Lieutenant-General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, as the commander of the land forces of the Uganda People's Defence Force, after a series of tweets that seem to have sparked a diplomatic tiff with Kenya.

African countries will use the COP27 climate talks in Egypt to advocate for a common energy position that sees fossil fuels as necessary to economic growth and electricity access.

Sub-Saharan Africa's economy is set to grow 3.3% this year, down from 4.1% in 2021, the World Bank said, due to slowing global growth, drought, inflation and rising risk of debt distress.

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South Africa could play more than just a cameo role in the African Union-led peace initiative in Tigray, a region in northern Ethiopia.

JOHANNESBURG, Oct 4 - African startups attracted a record $3.5 billion in venture capital investment in the first half of this year, bucking a global decline in dealmaking linked to worldwide economic turmoil, data released by an industry group show

Lesotho celebrates 56 years of independence on Tuesday, but the celebrations are clouded by the anticipation of the Mountain Kingdom's elections on Friday.

The ruling All Basotho Convention has been unable to pass important constitutional changes in parliament.

A new report by Afrobarometer reveals that, in Madagascar, there is still an overwhelming belief that when you spare the rod, you spoil the child.

Burkina Faso's junta leader Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba agreed to step down Sunday, two days after military officers announced he had been removed from power, religious and community leaders said.

The Annopheles stephensi mosquito species, considered to be an Asian and Arabian Peninsula malaria vector, has spread to at least five African countries in the past decade, according to the World Health Organisation.

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Chad has extended the transition period to democratic elections, while keeping the head of the military junta on as head of state in the interim.

Equatorial Guinea has reopened a bitter battle with France at the UN's top court over a confiscated Paris mansion and other assets, the International Court of Justice said.

Lawmakers in Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland have extended President Muse Bihi Abdi's current term of office by two years ahead of its expiry in November, the senate chairman said on Saturday.

Namibia's water, energy, and food security are under threat because its main rivers have run dry amid a drought, and its upstream neighbours are diverting supplies.

The African Union on Saturday condemned the "unconstitutional change of government" in Burkina Faso, a day after the second coup this year in the deeply poor and restive West African country.

Burkina Faso awoke to fresh uncertainty Saturday after its second coup this year when junior officers toppled a junta leader, saying he had failed to fight jihadist attacks in the deeply poor and restive West African nation.

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.