Ugandan opposition presidential candidate Bobi Wine said soldiers raided his home on Tuesday and arrested his security guards, two days before an election.

Move is part of new measures to stop traditional funeral rites believed to be increasing the spread of the coronavirus.

West African envoys landed in Mali for talks on the country's transition to civilian rule, amid concerns over the slow pace of reforms and the army's role in government.

Zimbabwean journalist Hopewell Chin'ono, has vowed to "fight" for freedom of expression in a fiery statement penned from his prison cell.

More than 18 million people registered to take part in high-stakes vote after campaigning marred by deadly violence.

Facebook has shut a slew of accounts belonging to Ugandan government officials accused of seeking to manipulate public debate ahead of elections on Thursday.

Gold sales to Zimbabwe's sole buyer and exporter of bullion Fidelity Printers and Refiners (FPR) fell 31% to 19 tonnes last year after lower deliveries from small-scale miners, official data showed on Monday.

Ahmed Ouyahia tells state prosecutors he sold 60 gold bars received as gifts from Gulf donors.

Zimbabwe police have re-arrested award-winning journalist and government critic Hopewell Chin'ono, as well as one of his defenders, for allegedly posting false information on social media, prosecutors and lawyers said.

In Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, the main funeral parlours and cemeteries are overrun and the city’s biggest hospital is in a shambles, while the Beitbridge border with South Africa is a mess.

Rebels attacked two towns in the Central African Republic on Saturday as French warplanes flew over in an apparent attempt to deter an advance on the capital after a disputed election.

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.