While delivering the Thabo Mbeki lecture, Professor 'Funmi Olonisakin said the war in Ethiopia's Tigray region was evidence of the shortcomings of the African Union.

News24 has appointed seasoned journalist Lynsey Chutel to head up its Africa desk.

Which customs do you keep, which ones do you let go? Masanda Peter looks at baby traditions.

South Sudan will return 72 000 doses of donated Covid-19 vaccines after concluding it cannot administer the jabs before they expire, a health ministry official told AFP.

A cholera outbreak in northern Nigeria has killed at least 20 people in the past two weeks with more than 300 hospitalised from the disease, a health official said.

A deal "in principle" has been reached in Somalia to organise new elections, its foreign minister told the UN Security Council.

In South Africa, the day is largely a reminder of the country's relationship with the continent from which it was largely cut off during the apartheid era.

Sudan has declared a state of emergency and imposed a night curfew in some parts of the coastal Red Sea state, after tribal violence that killed at least five people, according to state media.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for civilian leaders in Mali to be released, after military officers upset with a government reshuffle detained the president and prime minister at an army camp.

Malian officers upset with a government reshuffle have detained the president and prime minister at an army camp outside the capital, triggering broad international condemnation and demands for their immediate release.

Niger began distributing more than four million mosquito nets to fight malaria, which killed more than 5 000 people last year.

A chief in Zimbabwe has ordered the exhumation and reburial of Robert Mugabe's remains at the national heroes' shrine in Harare.

Mali's interim government has appointed new ministers with army figures retaining key portfolios despite growing criticism over their role.

Hundreds of protesters partially blocked a highway into Nigeria's capital Abuja after residents reported a spate of kidnappings in the area.

President Cyril Ramaphosa is aware of how much work still has to be done as the continent gears up to celebrate Africa Day on 25 May.

A dozen clandestine miners died when a makeshift gold mine collapsed in the north of the Democratic Republic of Congo, UN radio Okapi reported Monday.

Lawyers representing the Ever Given's owner said the ship should have also been chaperoned by at least two tug boats, "but this didn't happen."

The prime minister of Tunisia, which is struggling with a deep economic crisis, has called for a relaunch of economic cooperation with Libya at the start of a two-day visit.

Lava from a volcano that erupted in Democratic Republic of Congo is reaching the airport in Goma, a volcanologist has said.

The company will enter a commitment of creating 1.1 million jobs in 10 years and cover the country with a 4G service by 2023.