South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday marked the 35th anniversary of the death of Mozambique's first president Samora Machel, vowing to go after Islamist insurgents wreaking havoc in the north of the country.

A unit of Credit Suisse Group AG is pleading guilty for its role in a fundraising scandal that looted money from Mozambique and tipped the country into economic crisis.

A Youm7 reporter was broadcasting live from his phone when it was stolen, and the thief kept broadcasting as he drove away.

Africa's fabled eastern glaciers will vanish in two decades, 118 million poor people face drought, floods or extreme heat.

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JOHANNESBURG, Oct 19 - Africa's fabled eastern glaciers will vanish in two decades, 118 million poor people face immanent drought, floods or extreme heat, and climate change could also shave 3% off continental GDP by mid-century, the U.N. climate ag

Ethiopia's military launched air strikes on the capital of the war-battered Tigray region, a dramatic escalation in the year-long conflict.

Credit Suisse Group is nearing an agreement with the US government that would resolve a criminal probe regarding its role in a $2 billion Mozambique bond scandal, according to people familiar with the matter.

The Peten-Amun mummy was first discovered in the Durban Natural Science Museum's inventory during the move from the Old Town Hall to the City Hall in 1910.

Gunmen have killed at least 30 people in an attack in northern Nigeria's Sokoto state, the governor's office has announced.

Four Tunisian migrants died and 19 were missing after their boat capsized, a judicial source told AFP, the latest deadly mishap in waters off North Africa.

Public transport remained at a standstill on Sunday in Eswatini, in the latest protest against Africa's last absolute monarchy, rocked by a wave of pro-democracy demonstrations.

A Tunisian court on Sunday ordered a lawmaker to be detained over suspected tax fraud and money laundering - the fourth parliamentarian to be taken into custody since President Kais Saied seized near total control of the country in July.

The Algerian coastguard recovered four bodies from the Mediterranean Sea and rescued 13 migrants after a boat capsized in its waters, the defence ministry said Sunday.

The West African archipelago nation of Cape Verde, one of the continent's most stable democracies, voted on Sunday for a new president who will be tasked with righting its tourism-driven economy after the Covid-19 pandemic sent growth cratering.

Demonstrations were sparked by concerns over the independence of the electoral commission.

Algeria's president has called for an approach free of "colonialist thought" on historical issues between his country and France.

Eswatini, Africa's last absolute monarchy, said Saturday it had shut its schools "indefinitely with immedi ate effect" as the country faces a wave of pro-democracy protests.

A ship’s captain who handed 101 migrants over to the Libyan coastguard after rescuing them in the Mediterranean Sea has been given a one-year jail term, in the first such case heard by Italy’s courts.

Gunmen have killed a ranger in the Virunga National Park, home to endangered mountain gorillas in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where armed groups also roam.