"We're screwed," said Alphonse Fwamba Mutombo, standing on a plot of rubble overlooking an open-cast cobalt mine in Kolwezi, southeastern DR Congo.

A 23-year-old Zambian student who died in Ukraine while fighting for Russia could have been recruited by Russian mercenary army the Wagner Group, his sister has told BBC.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation said on Thursday it was committing $7 billion to Africa over the next four years, as Bill Gates warned that the Ukraine crisis was reducing the amount of aid flowing to the continent.

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Bill Gates’ philanthropic foundation is pledging more than $7 billion to improve health, gender equality and boost farming productivity in Africa.

Iceland's silence and failure to prosecute business elites implicated in the biggest scandal in Namibia's history has been described as "almost an embarrassment".

Equatorial Guinea holds elections in which the world's longest-standing leader President Teodoro Obiang Nguema will seek to extend his 43-year authoritarian rule, marked by alleged rights abuses and corruption.

When Ebola broke out in Uganda in September, 10 doctors immediately stepped forward to work in an isolation unit at Fort Portal Regional Referral Hospital, but now only three are left.

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.

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.