The deployment was approved at an extraordinary summit, held in Maputo, and attended by all 16 member states, including President Cyril Ramaphosa.

Dozens of people were wounded or killed in an airstrike on a market in the town of Togoga in Ethiopia's conflict-hit Tigray region, witnesses told AFP Wednesday.

Eleven policemen have been killed in an ambush by suspected jihadists in northern Burkina Faso, and four more officers are missing, the government has announced.

Presence of foreign mercenaries, troops in war-torn country and elections to top meeting’s agenda.

The Ever Given is on the brink of being released, according to its insurers, who say its owners have made an agreement in principle with Egypt.

Medical charity MSF has asked Cameroon to let it resume work in the country's insurgency-riven English-speaking west, saying tens of thousands were deprived of medical care.

The private HealthPoint Hospital says it is authorised to offer vaccine tourism, and has "substantial" stock of mostly Chinese vaccines agains the coronavirus.

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

Southern African leaders will meet in Maputo for the day-long summit, against the backdrop of an insurgency regional leaders have labelled as 'terrorism'.

Zimbabwe expects to receive 2.5 million Covid-19 vaccines from China by the end of this month.

Fifteen Nigerian hostages have escaped from their abductors as they slept, weeks after they were among more than 130 pupils and teachers snatched by gunmen from an Islamic seminary, the school's headteacher told AFP Tuesday.

The World Bank will partner with the African Union to help accelerate coronavirus vaccinations on the continent.

Egyptian TikTok influencer Haneen Hossam will appeal a 10-year prison sentence handed down by a Cairo court that found her guilty of human trafficking, her lawyer has said.

President Cyril Ramaphosa urged developed economies to aid Africa’s post-pandemic recovery by allocating more International Monetary Fund (IMF) reserves to the continent.

At war with the politically powerful Tigray People's Liberation Front, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has also alienated and cracked down on Oromo parties, stoking further ethnic division in the country.

The Southern African Development Community will hold an extraordinary summit this week, with terrorism on the agenda.

Zambia's founding president Kenneth Kaunda will be buried on July 7, three weeks after he died aged 97, the presidency announced on Monday.

The Chad government has accused the Central African Republic of killing six of its soldiers in an attack on an outpost in the south of the country.

Ethiopians vote in national and regional elections that the prime minister has billed as proof of his commitment to democracy after decades of repressive rule.

Four southern African nations are considering breaking away from the United Nations’ Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species to set up a parallel organization to allow trade in ivory.