Nine people, including two Chinese, were killed and two others injured after a crane collapsed at a construction site in Kenya's capital Nairobi, police said.

The World Health Organization's pandemic programme plans to ship 100 million doses of the Sinovac and Sinopharm Covid-19 shots by the end of next month, mostly to Africa and Asia, in its first delivery of Chinese vaccines, a WHO document shows.

The two groups and Saudi Arabia decry the diplomatic rift and ask the North African rivals to resolve the conflict.

South African companies are being hit by Nigerian regulatory woes and an analyst says it is time for the SA government to act.

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Ethiopian authorities have postponed polls in around a fifth of the country's constituencies, extending a months-long delay which prevented citizens from voting in a June election due to ethnic violence and logistical problems.

Attackers shot dead at least 36 people and destroyed buildings in a night raid on a village near the central Nigerian city of Jos, officials said, in an area hit by repeated ethnic clashes.

An attacker wielding an assault rifle was shot dead after killing three police and an employee of a private security company near the French embassy in the Tanzanian capital Dar es Salaam, President Samia Suluhu Hassan said.

Manuel Chang is accused of defrauding investors around the world in Mozambique's $2 billion hidden debt corruption scandal.

The US and EU are raising alarm over the recent deployment of troops from Eritrea to Ethiopia’s Tigray region.

Zimbabwe will use more than half of the about R14 billion allocated to it by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to support its beleaguered currency.

A flight carrying Afghan evacuees fleeing the Taliban takeover of their country has touched down in Uganda where they will be given temporary refuge.

In an inauguration that hosted both heads of state and opposition leaders, including President Cyril Ramaphosa and Mmusi Maimane, newly elected President Hakainde Hichilema promised to restore the economy and stamp out corruption.

Nigeria has recently approved China's Sinopharm vaccine against Covid-19, the head of the country's primary healthcare agency said.

Hissene Habre, the first African leader convicted of war crimes, has died at the age of 79.

Zambia's newly-elected leader Hakainde Hichilema takes office after a comprehensive election victory hailed as a rare triumph over authoritarianism.

Ethiopia is developing its own social media platforms to rival US-owned sites such as Facebook and Twitter, the country's intelligence and cybersecurity agency has said.

Zimbabwe’s state electricity company is awaiting the outcome of international arbitration in a currency dispute with the country’s biggest private power producer that’s holding up other investments.

A DR Congo soldier accused of attempted rape shot dead the father of his victim, as well as three other people, before being killed himself by the security forces, local police said.

Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan has come under fire for remarks about women footballers having "flat chests" and suggesting they would not be attractive candidates for marriage.