Gunmen believed to belong to a criminal gang have kidnapped hundreds of schoolboys from their hostels along with some of teachers in central Nigeria, an official and a security source told AFP.

Vulnerable informal workers risk arrest and sickness to try eke out a living and feed their families.

Democratic Republic of Congo's ambassador to Ethiopia and the African Union, Jean Le'on Ngandu Ilunga has hinted that construction on the Inga 3 hydro-power project could start by the end of the year.

Zimbabwe will begin vaccinating against Covid-19 on Thursday, starting with health workers and other essential service personnel, the cabinet announced on Tuesday.

As dawn breaks in central Kenya, a helicopter lifts off in a race to find roosting locusts before the sun warms their bodies and sends them on a ravenous flight through farmland.

The reopening of Beitbridge border means very little, as Zimbabwe’s extended lockdown prevents intercity, interprovincial, and international travel across land borders.

Cameroon's army said on Monday it had arrested several soldiers and police for torturing a suspected "terrorist" in the country's conflict-scarred anglophone region.

A fourth Guinean Ebola patient died on Monday, the health agency said, as the government and aid groups began to roll out their response to the outbreak.

A former top Central African Republic football official and a militiaman nicknamed Rambo go on trial at the International Criminal court on Tuesday charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity.

The World Trade Organisation selected Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to be the first woman and first African as its leader, tasking the former Nigerian finance minister with restoring trust in a rules-based global trading system roiled by protectionism and the ...

DR Congo President Felix Tshisekedi on Monday named Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde Kyenge, head of the state mining giant Gecamines, as prime minister following a prolonged tussle for power with allies of his predecessor.

Country receives 200,000 jabs from state-owned Chinese manufacturer, with 600 000 expected to arrive next month.

Nigeria's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala looks set to be confirmed Monday as the first woman and first African leader of the beleaguered World Trade Organization, a near-paralysed institution desperately needing a kick-start.

A plane carrying Zimbabwe's first coronavirus vaccines, 200 000 doses donated by China, arrived in the capital Harare on Monday.

Guinea declared a new Ebola outbreak on Sunday when tests came back positive for the virus after three people died and four fell ill in the southeast - the first resurgence of the disease there since the world's worst outbreak in 2013-2016.

Nigeria's president appealed for calm on Sunday following reports of intercommunal violence between ethnic groups at a market in the southwestern state of Oyo.

Seven people who attended a nurse's funeral later came down with diarrhea, vomiting, and bleeding. Now Guinea has confirmed a new Ebola outbreak.

Eleven people were killed after separatist insurgents attacked two military camps in the Democratic Republic of Congo's main mining centre of Lubumbashi Sunday.

Zimbabwe will begin its Covid-19 vaccination campaign next week, the health ministry said on Friday, potentially positioning it as the first southern African country to start inoculating citizens.

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has returned home after a one-month stay in Germany for surgery following post-Covid-19 complications in his foot.