South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has tested positive for Covid-19 and is being treated for mild symptoms. Mr Ramaphosa started feeling unwell on Sunday after leaving the state memori... Read more

Gunmen in Nigeria’s Niger state have shot dead at least 16 worshippers in a mosque. A number of others have been wounded in the attack at Ba’are village in Mashegu area. The attackers opened... Read more

Dozens of inmates from Boma prison in western Democratic Republic of Congo have escaped. The prisoners took advantage of loud music that was playing at a funeral in the neighbourhood to dist... Read more

Egypt, Ethiopia and Eritrea are among the countries highlighted for jailing numerous journalists in the past year. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) says the number of reporters imp... Read more

Burkina Faso President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré has in a decree dismissed Prime Minister Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré and dissolved the government. “The functions of the prime mini... Read more

Seventeen African countries are taking part in a two-day Democracy summit hosted by US President Joe Biden, billed as an event to discuss ways to defend against the rise of authoritarianism.... Read more

Four lecturers at a leading university in Morocco have appeared in court over accusations of offering students better grades in exchange for sex. The academics have been charged with incitem... Read more

At least 38 people have died and scores more have been injured in a fire which tore through a prison in Burundi. Vice-President Prosper Bazombanza told reporters the blaze hit an overcrowded... Read more

The runner-up in The Gambia’s presidential election, Ousainou Darboe, has said he plans to challenge the result in which the incumbent, Adama Barrow, won with 53% of the vote. Mr Darbo... Read more

A Zimbabwe court has dropped charges of inciting violent anti-government protests levelled against journalist and government critic Hopewell Chin’ono. The court said prosecutors had failed t... Read more

A Kenyan police officer has shot dead his wife and five other people and then killed himself in Kabete town outside the capital Nairobi. Police constable Benson Imbasi is said to have asked... Read more

The UK’s travel restrictions have been criticised by Nigeria, after the country was placed on the red list amid fears over the Omicron variant. “What is expected is a global appr... Read more

The Gambia’s President Adama Barrow has easily won re-election, authorities there said, in the first vote for decades held without long-term leader Yahya Jammeh. President Barrow recei... Read more

Nigeria has become the latest country to be added to Britain’s travel red list – which imposes stringent coronavirus testing and quarantine restrictions on people who wish to ent... Read more