Mozambique's government should combine its military response to a spiralling insurgency in its gas-rich north with aid to disenchanted communities and dialogue with militants, the International Crisis Group said on Friday.

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

At least 10 "terrorists" were killed and three soldiers injured on Thursday in an ambush on a patrol in northern Burkina Faso, security forces have said.

Africa is heading into a third wave of coronavirus infections as the least-inoculated continent faces a shortage of vaccines.

Nearly 90% of African countries will miss a target of vaccinating a tenth of their population by September unless they urgently receive more than 200 million jabs, the WHO warned Thursday.

The prime minister of the troubled Central African Republic, Firmin Ngrebada, announced that his government had tendered its resignation.

Algeria holds a parliamentary election under the shadow of a protest movement boycott and deep scepticism that the North African nation can escape political paralysis.

An unpublished analysis by United Nations agencies and aid groups estimates some 350 000 people in Ethiopia's conflict-torn Tigray region are in famine conditions, according to an internal UN document.

According to the PwC Africa Business Agenda report, African CEOs are anxious about tax policy, general policy certainty and over-regulation.

Twitter's suspension in Nigeria will end once the US social media giant submits to local licencing, registration and conditions, the government said, rejecting criticism the ban had stifled freedom of expression.

The Committee of African Heads of State and Government on Climate Change met to reiterate a united voice on climate change, but more needs to be done at home, said on expert.

The Islamic State West Africa Province's announcement that Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, has been killed marks a power shift in terrorism in the region.

DR Congo's Mount Nyiragongo has ceased to rumble and Goma, the city that lives in its shadow, is in recovery mode. But hundreds of parents are still frantically searching for children who became separated from them during the panicky flight to safer ...

Jihadists plaguing parts of northern Mozambique for the past three-and-half years abducted dozens of children during raids in 2020, British charity Save the Children has said in a report.

Armed groups in Mozambique are increasingly kidnapping children as a warfare tactic, putting victims at risk of sexual violence, early marriage and being used as fighters in the country's worsening conflict, aid groups said on Wednesday.

Trump also suggested more countries should ban Twitter. Repressive governments like Iran and China already censor social media platforms like Twitter.

The death of a law student in eSwatini has caused uproar over allegations of police brutality, but the family says Thabani Nkomonye was just a passionate law student with big dreams.

Namibia's government came under fire from lawmakers for its 1.1-billion-euro settlement with Germany, under which Berlin officially acknowledged an early 20th century genocide by colonial troops.

Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh arrived in Cairo on Tuesday for the first in a series of talks this week between Egyptian authorities and Palestinian factions.

More than 3 300 people, most of them children, fled their homes in Burkina Faso's volatile north following the country's worst massacre in years, the United Nations said on Tuesday.