The African Union Peace and Security Council held a meeting focusing on the AU-led peace process for Ethiopia, scheduled to take place in South Africa on Monday.

Morocco has blasted what it called Pretoria's "gesticulations and agitations" over the disputed territory of Western Sahara, in reaction to Cyril Ramaphosa backing the region's independence.

Malawi unearthed four more bodies following the grim discovery of a grave containing the remains of 25 men suspected to be Ethiopian migrants, police said.

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Nigeria’s telecommunications regulator ordered mobile telecommunication companies to reverse a 10% tariff hike that was meant to cover rising costs.

With 30 days before the FIFA World Cup gets underway in Qatar, there is still no remedy fund for migrant workers, most of whom are from Africa and Asia.

African Union-led peace talks aimed at ending the two-year conflict in Tigray, Ethiopia, will be held in South Africa on Monday, says the Ethiopian government.

Amid pressure against America, US Department of State sanctions coordinator James O'Brien says sanctions on Zimbabwe target "the people who are responsible for and profit from human rights abuses, corruption and anti-democratic actions".

Conflict, coups, dire poverty: Sudan is reeling from multiple crises, but environmental activist Nisreen Elsaim warns a bigger problem dwarfs them all -- climate change.

The Ethiopians government said Thursday that peace talks on the nearly two-year-old war in Tigray would start in South Africa next week.

Malawi has discovered a mass grave in the north of the country containing the remains of 25 people suspected to be migrants from Ethiopia, police said.

President Cyril Ramaphosa and Kenya's William Ruto are the two most recent African leaders to reaffirm support for Western Sahara.

One of the poorest and most arid states in the world, the landlocked nation of Chad has been hit by exceptional floods that have affected hundreds of thousands of lives.

The UN has warned that Somalia is on the brink of a child malnutrition tragedy at a scale not seen in decades.

The Zimbabwean government has urged residents with exemption permits to comply with South African laws after it emerged only a handful had applied for the available mainstream visas.

The Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe has announced the approval of the use of long-acting injectable cabotegravir (CAB-LA) as a pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention, a first for Africa.

UN says a child is being admitted for medical treatment for malnutrition every minute in Somalia as drought worsens.

A second attempt is under way to convene talks in South Africa to end the hostilities in Ethiopia's Tigray region, but fighting seems to be intensifying.

Ahead of next year's elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo, researchers have said they were concerned the process had got off to "a bad start" and warned of the risk of "violent protests".

Tigrayan rebels have said that Ethiopian and Eritrean forces had taken control of the strategic city of Shire in north-western Tigray.