Schools in the wartorn region of Tigray in northern Ethiopia have been turned into prisons for parents who refuse to conscript their children into the Tigray People's Liberation Front or donate their food, cattle and money, the BBC reports.

South Africa Movement leader Mmusi Maimane has joined growing calls in Zimbabwe for a mass stayaway on Monday, because South Africa had "paid a heavy price for the oppression in Zimbabwe".

As a disabled child growing up in Nigeria, Joshua Anum did not see internet stardom in his future. He and his eight siblings, abandoned by their father, barely had enough to eat.

Juliet Mukakabanda was hiding with her husband and three children in a small church in southern Rwanda when the family was lured to a nearby school by local leaders, who promised them "protection" from gangs of genocidal killers.

Seven soldiers and four back-up troops have been killed in two ambushes in Burkina Faso's troubled north, the army said.

French forces are pulling out of Mali after a breakdown in relations with the country’s military government.

Demand for air travel to, from and within Africa is challenged by low vaccination rates across the continent as well as impacts from rising inflation, says an industry body.

One of the most powerful militia leaders in Libya, Abdel Ghani al-Kikli of the Gheniwa grouping, stands accused of gross human rights violations, a new report by Amnesty International showed.

Zambia's health minister has called on the country's citizens to get vaccinated against Covid-19 as winter approaches, amid an outbreak of influenza at the University of Zambia in Lusaka.

Togo's President Faure Gnassingbe has agreed to act as a mediator in Mali's political crisis as the West African country's military junta faces pressure to re-establish civilian rule, their foreign ministers said.

In a nondescript office north of Kenya's capital Nairobi, social media influencer Ian James Mwai constantly glances at his two mobile phones, wary of missing an opportunity to promote the political party he works for.

Cameroon will this month preside over the Peace and Security Council, the standing decision-making organ of the African Union on the prevention, management and resolution of conflicts.

A young chimpanzee wrapped his arms around the neck of his rescuer in a brief hug as he was released from a wooden cage to scamper off to play in his spacious new enclosure.

Jihadists attacked a village in northeast Nigeria, killing seven people and looting supplies, shortly after UN chief Antonio Guterres arrived in the troubled region for a visit, local sources said on Wednesday.

Botswana has dismissed as 'outrageous' claims by former president Ian Khama that his family is under siege and there's a plot to assassinate him.

Sudanese entrepreneur Mohamed Samir watches proudly as workers assemble garishly coloured rickshaws, unique in the North African nation because they run on electricity in a bid to tackle soaring costs.

There has hardly been a drop of rain in Hargududo in 18 months. Dried-up carcasses of goats, cows and donkeys litter the ground near the modest thatched huts in this small village in the Somali region of southeastern Ethiopia.

Heavily armed Al-Shabaab jihadist fighters on Tuesday attacked a military base in Somalia where African Union peacekeepers are stationed, causing casualties, a local military commander and witnesses said.

This year's Press Freedom Day - on 3 May - is celebrated at a time when journalists operating in Ethiopia are experiencing some of the harshest working conditions to ever emerge in Africa.

According to The Guardian, over 6,500 migrant workers have died in Qatar since it won the right to host the 2022 World Cup in 2010.