Dozens of people are feared dead after human traffickers abandoned them in Niger’s northern desert without food or water, a senior local official said on Monday.
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South Sudanese armed opposition Sudan People’s Liberation Movement SPLM-IO has rejected calls to join the country’s National Dialogue process launched by President Salva Kiir.
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Rwandan President Paul Kagame has stated that his country will proceed with the ban on used clothes despite threats by the United States to review trade benefits to Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda.
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A bridge that is being constructed by the Chinese Overseas Construction and Engineering Company at a cost of $12m has collapsed.
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Congolese president Joseph Kabila says he’s ready to dialogue.
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The UN on Monday criticised a decision by a Congolese military tribunal not to prosecute seven Democratic Republic of Congo soldiers for crimes against humanity.
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Zimbabwe police arrested prominent protest pastor and anti-government campaigner Evan Mwawire on Monday after he spoke to a group of striking medical students, his family and lawyer said.
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An unidentified armed group in Central African Republic shot and killed a Red Cross worker in a town where more than 100 people have died in militia attacks in recent weeks, the Red Cross said on Monday.
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Hostage Johan Gustafsson, held by al-Qaeda in Mali since 2011, has been freed, the Swedish foreign ministry says.
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Morocco’s king has rebuked ministers over delays to a development programme meant to pump investment into a region rocked by months of protests over unemployment and perceived state neglect.
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Two people were found dead as more than 200 migrants adrift in two dinghies off the Libyan coast were rescued by the Spanish navy on Sunday, the Spanish Defense Ministry said on Monday.
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Tottenham and Kenyan midfielder Victor Wanyama was honoured in Tanzania on Saturday by having a street named after him in Dar es Salaam.
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Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi has ordered the withdrawal of troops from Gorongosa hill, believed to be the hideout of the main opposition Renamo leader Afonso Dhlakama.
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South Africa has banned the sale of live hens throughout the country in a bid to control an outbreak of highly contagious H5N8 bird flu, but no humans have been affected, the government said on Monday.
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Cameroon has dispatched its defense minister to its northern border with Nigeria following a recent series of suicide bomb attacks that has left dozens dead.
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As South Sudan’s civil war creates the world’s largest refugee crisis and widespread allegations of sexual and ethnic violence, journalists charge the government is restricting their ability to report the news.
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Eight Chadian soldiers were killed in fierce fighting with Boko Haram insurgents at the weekend on islands on Lake Chad, which borders four countries on the edge of the Sahara, Chad’s army said Monday.
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Tanzania has threatened to arrest and deport those campaigning for gay rights and de-register organisations protecting homosexual interests, local media reported on Monday.
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South Africa’s Afrikaanse Protestante Kerk church in Orania Sunday barred two black journalists from attending a service.
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Investigators have widened a corruption probe into the French assets of three African ruling families, charging the daughter and son-in-law of Congo’s President Denis Sassou Nguesso, judicial sources told AFP on Sunday.
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Ghana has secured a China’s commitment of $15 billion to finance its massive economic transformation agenda.
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South Africa has chosen to side with the Democratic Republic of Congo on its investigation into violence in its Kasai province, which has seen hundreds of people killed in the past 10 months and at least 1.3 million displaced.
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In a renewed friendly deal, President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, has given the assurance that his country would not be a centre for the launch of hostile acts against Sudan.
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A scam kingpin, Angel Ferdinand Marcos, who claimed to be the illegitimate son of the late Filipino president Ferdinand Marcos, and members of his gang, have been declared wanted by Chad, after failing to accomplish their mission.
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Chadian president Idriss Deby Itno threatened on Sunday to pull his country’s troops out of African peacekeeping operations because of a lack of financial support to the cash-strapped country.
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The Ghanaian Government is facing growing calls to keep its promises after it won elections on a pledge to end corruption.
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More than 100 media workers have been rendered jobless after Gambian tax authorities shut down the Daily Observer, one of the first national newspapers.
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President Jacob Zuma has made it clear that his counterpart from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Joseph Kabila, still has a friend in South Africa.
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The Malagasy government has deployed troops and drones to ensure security ahead of the country’s 57th independence anniversary celebrations on Monday.
READ MOREPresident Jacob Zuma is meeting with DRC President Joseph Kabila in Pretoria, amid threats of protests by DRC citizens over election delays in the country.
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