South Africa has dropped to seventh among countries with the highest number of coronavirus cases globally as new cases continue to reduce, official data shows. The US, India, Brazil, Russia,... Read more

Clashes between Mozambican government forces and Islamist insurgents in the northern Cabo Delgado province have forced thousands of fleeing residents to a coronavirus hotspot, according to t... Read more

Zimbabwe’s government plans to hand back “a mere” 37 farms to foreign nationals covered by international agreements, the state-owned Herald newspaper reports. The farms wer... Read more

The jihadist group Islamic State West Africa Province (Iswap) has said its fighters killed at least 10 Nigerian soldiers in the town of Magumeri in the north-east. Security sources have conf... Read more

Zambia’s main opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema has demanded $3m (£2.3m) from former finance minister Edith Nawakwi after accusing her of falsely linking him to corruption during th... Read more

The US assistant secretary for African affairs, Tibor Nagy, has held talks with Rwandan ambassador to the US over the arrest of Paul Rusesabagina, who was portrayed in a Hollywood film about... Read more

A court in Zimbabwe has released the journalist, Hopewell Chin’ono, on bail. He had been in prison since July after being charged with inciting public violence for posting messages in... Read more

Sudan’s transitional government and the rebel groups that signed a peace agreement in neighbouring South Sudan’s capital, Juba, on Monday, have started to discuss how to implement it. It is... Read more

The authorities in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa plan to distribute hundreds of thousands of loaves of bread for free as part of celebrations to mark the Ethiopian new year, 2013. Th... Read more

The Zimbabwean government has announced that schools will be reopened in two weeks for students who will sit for examinations later in the year. Those preparing to sit for Cambridge examinat... Read more

Tunisia’s parliament has approved the new government formed by Prime Minister-designate Hichem Mechichi. Mr Mechichi appointed technocrats in his government as opposed to members of po... Read more

Malawi’s new President Lazarus Chakwera has reappointed the country’s army commander sacked by his predecessor after troops protected protesters contesting elections marred by fr... Read more

Mali’s ousted President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta has been admitted to a hospital in the capital Bamako, the Associated Press reports. It quoted two anonymous sources at a clinic where th... Read more