Kidnappers abducted students in an attack on a school in the north-central Nigerian state of Niger, a state government official said on Sunday.

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

Two days after Mount Nyiragongo erupted, out of the volcano's direct path Hadidja Dusengimana felt a powerful tremor and a sound "like a landmine" rippling through her home in Gisenyi.

Kenya has extended its nightly curfew by 60 days to slow the spread of Covid-19, the Interior Ministry said on Sunday.

Four civilians and a police officer were killed on Sunday by suspected jihadists in southern Mali, a region that has previously been mostly spared from the country's Islamist unrest, a security official said.

Six people were killed, including a woman who was burned alive, during an attack blamed on the regional militia group ADF in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

The pandemic slowed for the fourth week in a row around the world, led by an improvement in Europe, despite a worrying increase in cases in the United Kingdom.

The novel coronavirus has killed at least 3 513 088 people since the outbreak emerged in China in December 2019, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP.

President Cyril Ramaphosa will host President Emmanuel Macron at the Union Buildings, before the two hold a seminar on Covid-19 vaccines at the University of Pretoria. This is Macron’s first visit to South Africa, his second top on a two-country to...

Germany has apologised for its role in the slaughter of Herero and Nama tribespeople in Namibia more than a century ago, and officially described the massacre as genocide for the first time, as it agreed to fund projects worth over a billion euros.

Namibia says Germany has agreed to fund projects worth 1.1 billion euros over 30 years to atone for its role in genocide and property seizures in its-then colony more than a century ago, Namibian media reported.

President Cyril Ramphosa travelled to Maputo to meet with leaders from Botswana, Zimbabwe, Malawi and Tanzania to discuss the violence in Mozambique.

Tens of thousands of people fled the eastern DR Congo city of Goma, choking highways, after the local governor warned in a dawn broadcast of a possible new eruption of the volcano Mount Nyiragongo.

Nigerian rescue workers pulled more than three dozen bodies from the water after an overcrowded river boat sank leaving more than 150 people missing and feared drowned.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari appointed a new chief of army staff on Thursday after the previous top-ranking commander and 10 other officers died in a plane crash last week.

Mali's ousted interim president and prime minister have been freed after they were detained by the military and later resigned, an aide to the vice president has said.

Namibian President Hage Geingob and First Lady Monica Geingob have tested positive for Covid-19.

Congolese authorities have ordered the partial evacuation of Goma, a city that has been rocked by hundreds of earthquakes and seen large cracks appear in the earth in the aftermath of a volcanic eruption on its doorstep over the weekend.

Mali's interim president and prime minister have resigned, two days after they were arrested by the military, an aide to the vice president has said, deepening a political crisis and potentially setting up a standoff with international powers.

Southern Africa's leaders are meeting in the Mozambican capital to discuss the insurgency in the north of the country, which could spill over regional borders.