Claims that human toes are being bought and sold in Zimbabwe are a hoax, but facing prosecution for importing and selling sex toys is not.

The European Investment Bank committed 75 million euros ($80 million) on Thursday to finance construction of a new facility in Senegal that will produce Covid-19 and other vaccines for use across Africa.

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The war in Ukraine is overshadowing Africa's age-old humanitarian problems that often go unnoticed, the Norwegian Refugee Council says in its annual analysis of neglected crises.

The head of the African Union, Senegalese President Macky Sall, will speak with President Vladimir Putin in the southwestern Russian city of Sochi on Friday, Dakar said.

The United Nations Higher Commissioner for Refugees has announced the arrival of asylum seekers from Libya to Rwanda.

Guinea's ruling junta has rejected a UN call to lift a ban on political demonstrations, insisting protests should only be allowed during the election period in three years' time.

The World Health Organisation is rallying its partners to come up with a plan that won't leave Africa behind in the fight against monkeypox.

ANC chairperson Gwede Mantashe urged South Africans not to identify criminals by their nationality.

Africa is blessed with vast and fertile mineral resources, which are in abundance. However, the level of hunger on the continent is almost comparable to none, and the state of food insecurity is worsening day by day. Johannes P.S. Sheefeni examines w...

Britain aims to send a first group of asylum seekers to Rwanda in two weeks' time, as part of a policy which the government says is designed to break people-smuggling networks and stem the flow of migrants across the Channel.

Millions of people face severe hunger in the Horn of Africa as the worst drought in more than 40 years could extend to a fifth consecutive failed rainy season, the United Nations and humanitarian agencies have warned.

Relations have been strained since the mass arrival of Rwandan Hutus in eastern DRC after the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

The AU, Intergovernmental Authority on Development, and UN Integrated Transition Assistance Mission have welcomed the release of political prisoners in Sudan as a positive step forward.

Amid autochthony struggles and political fights over resource control, food remains one of the only frontiers in which conviviality continues to hold across borders and identity differences. writes Divine Fuh.

Senegalese police have made their first arrests in connection with a fire at a hospital in which 11 babies died, trade union sources said on Monday.

Togo has become the fourth African country after Morocco (2016), Ghana (2018), and the Gambia last year to eradicate trachoma, an eye disease that can cause permanent blindness.

The president of the European Union Commission has assured Africa that the EU is working on "solidarity lanes" - a method Ukraine can use to resume exports to alleviate a global food crisis.

A court in Cairo sentences Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh and several other Islamist leaders to lengthy jail terms.

The main opposition party in Nigeria has picked former vice president Atiku Abubakar as its candidate for the 2023 presidential elections.