Zimbabwe's cabinet has approved draft legislation that would allow President Emmerson Mnangagwa, 83, to extend his stay in office until at least 2030 Presidents would be chosen by MPs rather than in...
Zambia's High Court has ordered the seizure of assets worth more than $1.3m (£923,000) from Dalitso Lungu, the son of former President Edgar Lungu The forfeiture order covers 79 vehicles and 23 piece...
Madagascar's military government has criticised Eswatini for hosting ousted President Andry Rajoelina last week, describing the visit as a "grave infringement of its sovereignty" Last Friday, the Esw...
Kenya says it will talk to Russia over growing reports that its citizens are being recruited to fight in the war in Ukraine Speaking to the BBC, Foreign Minister Musalia Mudavadi called the practice...
A student has died after clashes erupted between police and students protesting delays in stipend payments at a Senegal university, the west African country’s government said on Tuesday The unrest br...
Senegalese police say they have arrested 14 people and broken up a paedophile gang operating between the country and France Those arrested, who are all Senegalese, were part of a "transnational" crim...
Eritrea has hit back at its neighbour Ethiopia describing accusations that its troops were on Ethiopian territory as "false" On Saturday, a letter sent from Ethiopia's foreign minister to his Eritrea...
A rubber boat carrying 55 passengers, including two babies, has overturned off the coast of Libya, the UN migration agency says The only survivors, two Nigerian women, were rescued by the Libyan auth...
The Nigerian Citizens Association South Africa (NICASA) has strongly condemned the killing of a Nigerian national, Mr. Emeka Clement Uzor, describing the incident as a grave human rights violation tha...
Sudan on Monday announced it was returning to east African bloc IGAD, two years after freezing its membership over a decision to invite rival paramilitary chief Mohamed Hamdan Daglo to a summit. “The...
A South African man named in a major police corruption probe has died after reportedly shooting himself at a petrol station Police are now investigating the death of Wiandre Pretorius, 41, who last w...
Ethiopia has ordered neighbouring Eritrea to “immediately withdraw its troops” from Ethiopian territory, accusing Asmara’s forces of an “incursion” and working with “rebel groups” along its northweste...
President John Mahama of Ghana has recalled the country’s High Commissioner to Nigeria, Baba Ahmed, over alleged links to electoral malpractices in the parliamentary election primaries for the Ayawaso...
The African Union said Friday that a drone attack this week by the M23 armed group on a civilian airport in DR Congo may constitute an “act of terrorism” The Rwanda-backed M23 claimed responsibilit...
South Africa's Democratic Alliance (DA) leader John Steenhuisen has said he will not seek re-election as the party's leader in April - a move that may threaten the stability of the coalition governmen...
Mahamat Hamid Abakar, 33, who suffered head and leg injuries during a drone attack on the vehicle he was traveling in near Um Baru, Sudan, is being treated by nurses at the hospital in Tine, Wadi Fira...
Seif al-Islam Kadhafi, the son of Libya’s late longtime ruler, has been killed by gunmen, his adviser told the media on Tuesday, with relatives confirming his death Kadhafi is also written as Gaddafi...
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has sacked two senior aides following an embarrassing situation where he appointed a dead man to serve on a panel to lead discussions on elections scheduled for Dece...
Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has hit out at Eritrea's army for committing atrocities during the two-year war in the northern Tigray region, which ended in 2022 Eritrean forces fought alongsid...
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has sacked two senior aides following an embarrassing situation where he appointed a dead man to serve on a panel to lead discussions on elections scheduled for Dece...
Sudan’s military says it has broken through a siege by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group of the South Kordofan capital of Kadugli, marking its second major advance in less than a week...
In an effort to further strengthen the cooperative relationship between the Republic of Mali and the People’s Republic of China, His Excellency LI Xiang, Chinese Ambassador Plenipotentiary to Mali, p...
Ghana has said it is suspending citizenship applications from descendants of Africans living abroad, a move analysts say could dent the country’s bid to promote itself as a Pan-African hub A diaspora...
African leaders have declared a united front against the surge in terrorism and violent extremism in West Africa, warning that the region has become the “global epicentre” of terror attacks and that i...
The military junta in Guinea-Bissau is no longer seeking to arrest a senior opposition politician who has been on the run, an opposition official said on Saturday.
A series of landslides struck a militia-held mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo, burying people alive and killing several, the governor and witnesses told AFP on Friday.
The ISIL (ISIS) armed group has claimed responsibility for an attack on an air force base at Niger’s main airport. The ISIL-affiliated Amaq News Agency reported on Friday that the group carried out a...
South Africa has declared Israel’s top diplomat in the country “persona non grata,” and given him 72 hours to leave, the foreign ministry said on Friday, citing a “series of violations” Ties betwee...
Burkina Faso’s junta announced Thursday that it plans to dissolve all political parties, whose activities have been suspended since the military rulers seized power in 2022 Captain Ibrahim Traore t...
Uganda’s army chief broke ties with the United States on Friday, accusing its embassy of helping missing opposition leader Bobi Wine, then reversed his stance an hour later. “I want to apologise to...
French energy giant TotalEnergies officially relaunched a $20 billion Mozambique gas project on Thursday after a five-year pause following a deadly jihadist attack. TotalEnergies chief executive Patr...
Sustained heavy gunfire and loud explosions have been heard in Niger near the international airport outside the capital, Niamey. Multiple eyewitness accounts and videos showed air defence systems app...
The Rwandan government has launched legal action against the UK to seek payments it claims it is owed under a scrapped migrant deal between the two countries. Rwanda has filed a case with the Netherl...
The United Nations says it is gravely concerned after a senior military leader in South Sudan urged his troops to "spare no-one" including "children, the elderly, and civilians" when they are deployed...
Kenyan cult leader faces charges over 52 further deaths 11 hours ago Jean Otalor Share Save AFP via Getty Images Self-proclaimed pastor Paul Mackenzie walks surrounded by Kenya Police Officers and o...
Senegalese Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko said on Monday in Rabat that ties with Morocco were “stronger than emotion”, days after chaotic scenes erupted when the two nations faced each other in the Afri...
After it imposed sanctions on Guinea following the 2021 coup, the African Union has announced it is lifting them. It comes after what the Union described as ‘the successful organisation of the presid...
A delegation from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is expected in Libreville next month, as the central African country seeks the multilateral lender's help to implement a reform program. Gabon...
The head of South Sudan's armed forces has given soldiers seven days to "crush the rebellion" in the east that is a potential threat to the capital, Juba. Recently, the Sudan People's Liberation Army...
A South African court has dismissed an appeal by the country's heritage body to stop the sale and export of various artefacts connected to anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela. The 70 personal items in...
Uganda's opposition leader Bobi Wine has told the BBC he will not contest the results of Thursday's election in court, citing a lack of confidence in the judiciary and has instead urged his supporters...
Mozambique battled severe flooding on Monday as the death toll after weeks of rain climbed, with more bodies also recovered in neighbouring South Africa. Heavy rains and storms have battered the two...
A minibus carrying students to school collided with a truck south of Johannesburg on Monday, killing 13 pupils, South African police said. The crash happened near the industrial city of Vanderbijlpark...
South Africa on Sunday declared a national disaster after widespread flooding that destroyed homes and killed dozens, while thousands sought shelter in neighbouring Mozambique. Heavy rains and storms...
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni, fresh from winning a seventh term at age 81, said Sunday that opposition politicians were “terrorists” who had tried to use violence to overturn the results. Offici...
Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine says he escaped a police and army raid on his house as veteran incumbent Yoweri Museveni secured an overwhelming victory in the presidential election. “I want to c...
President Yoweri Museveni has been declared the winner of Thursday's election extending his four decades in power by another five years. He gained 72% of the vote, the election commission announced...
At least seven Ugandan opposition supporters were killed overnight in disputed circumstances, as President Yoweri Museveni has taken a strong lead in results from Thursday's presidential election. Th...
A senior member of the Ugandan opposition told AFP on Friday that security forces stormed his home the previous day as the country held elections, shooting dead 10 members of his campaign team. “Ten...
Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine was under house arrest on Friday, a day after elections in which early results showed a commanding lead for President Yoweri Museveni as he seeks to extend his 40-y...
Votes are being counted in parts of Uganda amid an internet shutdown and opposition accusations of rigging in presidential and parliamentary elections. "Massive ballot-stuffing reported everywhere,...
Polls have opened in Uganda, though voting has been disrupted by widespread logistical delays across the country amid an internet shutdown. At 08:00 local time (05:00 GMT), the BBC observed that voti...
Ugandan authorities have imposed a nationwide internet blackout days before presidential elections in which President Yoweri Museveni is expected to prolong his 40-year rule. A government regulatory...
Sudan’s Prime Minister Kamil Idris has announced the government’s return to Khartoum, after nearly three years of operating from its wartime capital of Port Sudan. In the early days of the civil war...
Chinese, Russian and Iranian warships have arrived in South African waters for a week of naval drills as geopolitical tensions run high over the United States’s military intervention in Venezuela and...
tions have warned, as the war in the east African state marked its 1,000th day. Fierce fighting and global funding cuts have pushed more than 33 million people towards starvation in what has become o...
A pair of twin mountain gorillas has been born in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo - a rare occurrence for the endangered primates, conservationists at Virunga National Park say. The communit...
A plot to kill Burkina Faso's military leader, Capt Ibrahim Traoré, has been thwarted, the West African nation has announced. The sophisticated plan had been hatched by Lt Col Paul Henri Damiba, the...
At least 22 migrants have been killed and 65 others injured after a lorry they were travelling in overturned in Ethiopia's north-eastern Afar region, authorities say. About 85 Ethiopian migrants were...
Central African Republic (CAR) President Faustin-Archange Touadéra has won a third term after securing an outright majority in last month's presidential election, provisional results show. The 68-yea...
A militia linked to the Islamic State group staged a simultaneous attack on three villages in the Democratic Republic of Congo, killing at least 14 people, the military and local sources said Friday....
The Sudanese military has captured South Sudanese fighting alongside the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group in battles that broke out in a central region of the country this week, according...
At least seven people have died and many others are missing after a boat carrying about 200 migrants attempting to reach Europe capsized off the coast of The Gambia, authorities say. The boat overtur...
Mali and Burkina Faso have announced travel restrictions on American nationals in a tit-for-tat move after the US included both African countries on a no-entry list. In statements issued separately by...
Guinea junta chief takes lead in controversial election as social media restricted 2 hours ago Share Save Reuters Mamady Doumbouya, dressed in white, waves in Conakry, Guinea, on 3 November 2025Reut...
Egyptian democracy activist Alaa Abdel Fattah has apologised for several of his old tweets that have resurfaced, as calls grow for him to be deported from the UK days after he arrived following his re...
The United Kingdom has imposed visa restrictions on the Democratic Republic of the Congo, accusing its government of failing to cooperate with its new policy on the return of undocumented migrants and...
The Conservatives have called for a British-Egyptian activist to be deported and his UK citizenship to be revoked after social media messages emerged of him calling for Zionists to be killed. Sir Kei...
A senior official in Sudan’s Transitional Sovereignty Council (TSC) has ruled out any negotiations with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) as fighting continues to devastate the country. “Th...
Five people were killed, including two Czech tourists, after a helicopter crashed on Mount Kilimanjaro, the authorities in Tanzania announced on Thursday. All five people on board the aircraft died in...
Algeria's parliament has unanimously passed a law declaring France's colonisation of the North African state a crime, and demanding an apology and reparations. The law also criminalises the glorifica...
Uganda has imposed restrictions on the importation of Starlink equipment and similar devices barely a month before national elections on January 15, raising fears of an internet shutdown. President Yo...
At least nine people were killed after armed men opened fire at a licensed tavern in Bekkersdal township, near Johannesburg, South African police said. The attack took place just before 1am local time...
Benin on Saturday placed former defense minister and prominent opposition politician Candide Azannai in pre-trial detention as part of an investigation into the West African country’s failed early Dec...
The United States is pressing for an immediate humanitarian truce in Sudan as fighting intensifies across the vast strategic Kordofan region, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio warning that the relen...
A Uganda prison officer has been sacked for criticising the government on TikTok, in a rare move authorities said amounted to "gross indiscipline". Lawrence Ampe had been under investigation over soc...
Reports that the United States (US) military took over the airsoaces of Nigeria and Benin Republic are untrue, the US Africa Command (AFRICOM) said on Thursday. It gave the clarification while respo...
