More than 100 people, including women and children were abducted when gunmen raided four villages in Nigeria's northeastern Zamfara state on Sunday, the information commissioner and residents said on Monday.

Uganda's army said on Monday it will send 1 000 troops to neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo by the end of this month to join a regional force mandated to help end decades of instability.

The United States has a bounty out on three Al-Shabaab leaders who are linked to fundraising and financing for the terrorist outfit's operations in Kenya, Somalia and other parts of the Sahel region.

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Five years after late Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe was removed as head of state and leader of Zanu-PF, former minister, Professor Jonathan Moyo, reminisces about the coup d'état.

Currently, the sub-continent gets 0.01% of its energy supply from wind, 2% from solar, about 4%-5% from geothermal, 17% from hydro and 77% from fossil fuels.

The RDF in a statement said the suspect was killed by returning fire, after he shot at RDF soldiers on guard duties.

Isabel dos Santos has yet to be notified of an international arrest warrant reportedly issued by global police agency Interpol, an official source representing the billionaire daughter of Angola's former president said on Saturday.

Three seasonal farm workers extradited from Lesotho will go on trial next year, along with a fourth person, for the murder of Bonnievale farmer Jurie Wessels and the attempted murder of his wife Liezel.

West African coastal states have held talks on boosting cooperation against jihadist violence spilling over from the Sahel after more countries announced they would pull their peacekeepers out of Mali.

"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.

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.