There has been a surge in the theft of lithium batteries in Botswana as demand for alternative power sources for home and industrial use increases across southern Africa.

Former Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta, the facilitator of the peace process in the Democratic Republic of Congo, saw first-hand the suffering of internally displaced people when he visited Goma on a fact-finding mission on Tuesday.

There was an enormous sigh of relief when medical supplies started trickling into Tigray in northern Ethiopia which was cut from the federal country by a protracted two-year civil war, the International Committee of the Red Cross has said.

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A Transnet train transporting magnetite into Mozambique collided with another train on a line running between the two countries.

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni on Tuesday urged foreign visitors not to cancel their plans over fears of the Ebola outbreak in the East African nation, insisting that the disease was under control.

Ivory Coast says it will withdraw from the UN's peacekeeping operations in troubled Mali, a move coinciding with Britain's announcement that it will quit the mission.

A Zimbabwean court on Tuesday released on bail 14 opposition activists arrested after clashes with ruling party members at a funeral for an opposition supporter whose mutilated body was found in a well.

Renewable energy can provide off-peak power. But without battery technology to store it efficiently, it's arguable whether Africa can meet its growth potential without the baseload power needed to industrialise its economies, says Greg Nott.

Learning poverty is one of sub-Saharan Africa's biggest challenges but a new study methodology by Nobel Prize winner Professor Michael Kremer claims to improve early pupils' capacity for learning by 53% in underserved African communities.

Rwandan President Paul Kagame has bemoaned the effects of the war in Ukraine on Africa, declaring that the continent wants peace in the world.

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed vowed on Tuesday "to implement honestly" a ceasefire agreement between his government and forces in Tigray, which he said was necessary to ensure peace proved sustainable.

A court in Nigeria's oil hub city Port Harcourt has arraigned 16 foreign crew from an oil tanker, with officials accusing them of suspected maritime offenses involving attempts to illegally export crude.

Nigeria's famed Benin bronzes -- artefacts stolen during British colonial rule and scattered across the globe -- have a new online archive that aims to become a digital record of the treasures.

Malcolm Bidali, a Kenyan security guard expelled from Qatar after complaining about working conditions, is feeling conflicted about watching the World Cup that starts this week.

Troops and rebels traded heavy fire in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday, a military source and local inhabitants said, as an envoy from the East African bloc called for all armed groups to "silence the guns".

The nineteenth conference of the parties of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora began in Panama City on Monday with African countries pushing for various reviews of proposals and documents on elephants ...

Zambia has asked Russia to explain how one of its citizens who had been serving a prison sentence in Moscow ended up on the battlefield in Ukraine where he was killed, Zambia's foreign affairs minister said on Monday.

In 2003, then-president of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe withdrew his country from the Commonwealth a year after it was suspended.

President Nana Akufo-Addo has fired Ghana's junior finance minister over corruption allegations made in an upcoming documentary on illegal gold mining.