Africa's last absolute monarchy, Eswatini, needs to enact reforms in the wake of pro-democracy protests that have rattled the country since June, Deputy Prime Minister Themba Masuku said.

Sudan's military coup leader, facing pressure at home and abroad to restore power to civilians, has said a technocratic prime minister could be announced in a week.

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has said schools will reopen early next year regardless of currently low vaccination uptake.

Implats’ Zimbabwe-based unit Zimplats on Thursday announced plans to invest a total of US$1.8 billion over the next seven years towards mine expansion, as well as the establishment of a base metal refinery.

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Sanctions against Zimbabwean politicians and institutions should be scrapped because they worsen pre-existing social and economic woes in the troubled nation, a UN expert said.

Africa's struggle to inoculate people against Covid-19 risks being hobbled by a shortage of syringes just as supplies of vaccines flood into the continent.

The Congolese army said that it had lost four soldiers and killed 27 militiamen in two days of fighting in several villages in the north east of the country.

Mozambique must find a political solution to end four years of unrest by Islamist militants, civic rights groups said on Thursday, arguing that the government's military intervention puts the exploitation of natural gas resources ahead of peace and s

Some of the DR Congo's former child soldiers have become traders, hairdressers and tailors, but many struggle to recover a normal life.

Ethiopia's military on Thursday carried out an air strike on the capital of the war-torn Tigray region that a hospital official and rebel sources said killed six people and injured 21 others.

State media report ambassadors to the US, EU, China, Qatar, France and head of Geneva mission relieved of their posts.

Islamic religious police in northern Nigeria arrested a man who put himself up for sale to escape biting poverty, a local official said.

Amnesty International on Wednesday urged Madagascar's government and the rest of the world to step up relief efforts for the island nation's drought-hit south.

Workers at Sudan's state petroleum company will join a nationwide civil disobedience movement declared by trade unions in response to the military coup.

Gunmen have killed 16 worshippers at a mosque in central Nigeria, a government official said Tuesday, in the latest violence in the restive region.

Egypt’s state of emergency allowed authorities to make arrests and search people’s homes without warrants.

Protesters are defiant on the streets of Sudan, demonstrating against a military coup, as international condemnation of the country's security forces ramped up.

Sudan's top general declared a state of emergency and dissolved the authorities leading the country's democratic transition, after soldiers detained civilian leaders.

Nigerian security forces have recaptured 446 inmates who escaped from prison in a mass jailbreak, with nearly 400 others still at large, officials have announced.