Law enforcement officers in The Gambia have discovered nearly three tonnes of cocaine in a salt shipment from Ecuador, its drugs agency has said.

Nurses at one of Zimbabwe's busiest hospitals have gone on strike, complaining of shortages of personal protective equipment.

Zimbabwean journalist and government critic Hopewell Chin'ono was arrested on Friday on charges of communicating false information, his third arrest inside six months, his lawyer said.

ArcelorMittal South Africa says the "timely restart" would help meet the supply of steel to the local industry in the face of the prevailing global steel shortage.

KAMPALA, Jan 8 - Dozens of campaign staff working for Bobi Wine, Uganda's leading opposition candidate in next week's presidential election, are being held in a military barracks after authorities defied court orders to release them, Wine's lawyer s

Senegal has reported an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu on a poultry farm, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) has said.

The Indian Ocean archipelago of the Seychelles will on Sunday be among the first African nations to begin vaccinating its population against the coronavirus.

Four soldiers and a civilian have been killed after an official convoy was hit by makeshift explosives in a restive English-speaking region of Cameroon, the government has said.

Ghanaian soldiers have intervened to quell a clash between opposing parties in parliament ahead of the body's swearing-in set for Thursday.

Youths protesting a coronavirus curfew have clashed with security forces overnight in the Senegalese capital, burning tyres and erecting barricades as police fired tear gas in Dakar's Ngor district.

Ten opposition candidates in the Central African Republic's presidential election have called for the vote – won by incumbent Faustin Archange Touadera – to be annulled in view of 'numerous irregularities'.

Tourism officials in Egypt are forecasting a gradual recovery for the industry in 2021, after the pandemic stopped the majority of people visiting its sights last year.

The latest update from the International Air Transport Association shows the load factor in Africa fell to 45.5% in October 2020 compared to September.

An al-Qaeda-linked jihadist group has claimed responsibility for an attack that killed two French soldiers in Mali.

Niger has declared three days of national mourning following the massacre of 100 civilians in two villages in the western region of the country where Islamist militants have carried out a series of attacks.

While health experts believe rising cases and the constrained situations at Zimbabwean health facilities justifies the lockdown, economists are bracing for the worst.

Nigerian authorities have arrested five activists who were organising an anti-government protest, severely beating the most prominent of them, Omoyele Sowore, his lawyer has said.

Two French soldiers have died after their vehicle hit an improvised explosive device in northeastern Mali, just days after three others were killed in similar fashion.

Zimbabwe's government on Saturday imposed a national lockdown with immediate effect, following a surge in Covid-19 cases, creating a major problem for most citizens who rely on the informal employment sector.

The case was brought forward following a 2019 investigation by the British public broadcaster, the BBC.