Hit by a fresh surge of infections and with vaccine deliveries at a near standstill, Africa is not ready to face a third wave of the pandemic, the World Health Organisation (WHO) waned on Thursday.

Thousands of Sudanese took to the streets of Khartoum on Thursday, stepping up their demands for justice for protesters were killed during a crackdown on anti-government demonstrations two years ago.

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

Malian strongman Colonel Assimi Goita met former Tuareg rebels on Wednesday, officials said, amid political uncertainty after the second coup in nine months in the fragile Sahel state.

A state government in central Nigeria confirmed on Thursday that gunmen seized 136 children from an Islamic seminary at the weekend, the latest in a string of mass kidnappings in the country.

The death of eSwatini student Thabani Nkomonye has sparked outrage among young people who see it as part of a legacy of police brutality in the country.

Prices of goods in Zimbabwe are spiralling again, threatening to halt a decline in consumer inflation, after authorities last week forced businesses to stop quoting prices in US dollars in a bid to encourage more use of the falter

Ivory Coast's government was to meet with the party of former president Laurent Gbagbo on Wednesday for talks on what his supporters have announced as his impending return.

Ivorian-Burkinabe tailor Pathe'O can look back on a 50-year career that has seen him rise from self-taught improviser to supplier of Africa's wealthy and powerful, including anti-apartheid torchbearer Nelson Mandela.

Chad and the Central African Republic (CAR) have called on the United Nations and African Union to investigate an incident at a border post in which at least six Chadian soldiers were killed by Central African troops, a joint statement said.

The African Union announced it was suspending Mali with immediate effect and threatened the impoverished country with sanctions, after a second military coup in nine months.

The retailer operated 25 outlets in eight states across Africa’s biggest economy but had been struggling with disruptions.

After physical altercations and heated disputes, the Pan-African Parliament has called off its presidential election.

Tuesday saw another day of dramatic scenes at the Pan-African Parliament, as delegates could not agree on electing a president.

More than 90 percent of people in Ethiopia's war-torn Tigray region need emergency food aid, the United Nations said Tuesday, as it appealed for over $200 million to scale up its response.

Streets in the eastern DR Congo city of Goma returned to life on Tuesday, five days after residents fled following warnings that the nearby Nyiragongo volcano could erupt again.

Rwandan authorities on Monday said they had arrested a highly critical YouTuber on charges of denying the 1994 genocide, which could land him in jail for over a decade if he is found guilty.

Gunmen attacked and wounded Uganda's former army commander on Tuesday, killing his daughter and driver in an assassination attempt.

Fears of looting are gripping the eastern DR Congo city of Goma, whose inhabitants fled last week after warnings that the dreaded Mount Nyiragongo volcano could be on the verge of a catastrophic second eruption.

Somalia's breakaway Somaliland region held its first parliamentary election for 16 years on Monday, in what politicians there describe as evidence of its comparative stability.