Inter-tribal tensions, the rebel menace, and hate speech in the eastern and western parts of the DRC are the major threats to a credible, free and fair general election next year, says the UN special advisor on the prevention of genocide.

The European Union has adopted assistance measures in support of the Rwandan Defence Force under the European Peace Facility for its mission in the gas-rich province of Cabo Delgado in Mozambique.

Zimbabwe has finished its allocated water for power generation at the 1 050 megawatts hydroelectric power plant in Kariba South.

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Two soldiers with the SADC Mission in Mozambique died in a battle in which more than 30 insurgents were killed earlier this week in the oil and gas-rich Cabo Delgado province.

The trial of 18 people accused of responsibility for the deadly 2016 attack on a beach resort in Grand Bassam, Ivory Coast, opened on Wednesday in the country's main city, Abidjan.

Rwanda's President Paul Kagame on Wednesday accused his counterpart in the Democratic Republic of Congo of exploiting a violent crisis in his country's east to delay elections.

On Wednesday, Lesotho's prime minister, Sam Matekane, met with leaders of state-owned entities and was due to meet the business community but issues arising between SA and Lesotho take precedence.

The US says there is evidence of fraud and intimidation in the general elections in central Africa's Equatorial Guinea, but the African Union's Elections Observation Mission disagrees.

In power since independence in 1990, Namibia's South West Africa People's Organisation will for the first time put forward a woman as its presidential candidate in 2024.

Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, said on Tuesday that a Zambian student who died in Ukraine had been fighting for his Wagner Private Military Group.

Three US citizens of Cameroonian origin have been arrested and charged with raising funds for separatist fighters in the Central African country, the U.S. Justice Department said.

The Kariba South Hydro Power Station provides Zimbabwe with about 70 percent of its electricity.

Despite Asia's tough stance on drug trafficking, some African women risk it all for the money.

If public opinion is to be considered, Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera is moving in the right direction with his graft fight that has netted the second most powerful politician, his deputy Saulos Chilima.

MTN Ghana says it has received a directive to deactivate sims that have not completed a biometric registration process, set to effect 5.7 million subscribers, or a quarter of its base

Somali security forces have ended an hours-long siege by Al-Shabaab militants who stormed a popular hotel in the capital Mogadishu overnight, killing eight civilians, the national police spokesperson said.

Botswana police shot and killed three armed robbers and two bystanders during a shootout in Gaborone on Friday.

Rescuers searching for dozens of others reported missing after landslide in Cameroon’s capital, Yaounde.

In South Africa, Ethiopia, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, human and organic waste are used to sustain food security and, by extension, create jobs.