South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa reshuffled his cabinet on Thursday evening, with notable changes including the finance and health ministries. Former Health Minister Zweli Mkhize res... Read more

The Nigerian military says it has killed at least 78 gunmen belonging to what it calls criminal gangs during an aerial bombardment of their hideouts in the north-west of the country. Many fi... Read more

Amnesty International says Nigerian security forces have killed dozens of people during operations against separatists in the south-east of the country. This comes after the government accus... Read more

Mozambique’s largest opposition party, Renamo, has demanded that parliament hold an urgent session to discuss the presence of foreign forces fighting armed groups in the Cabo Delgado provinc... Read more

Sudan’s transitional cabinet has unanimously approved a bill that would pave way for it to join the International Criminal Court (ICC), Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok tweeted ... Read more

South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma will be allowed out of prison on Tuesday next week to appear in person at a corruption trial. The court’s decision comes weeks after more than 300... Read more

The eyes of many people are on the small country in North Africa that set the Middle East on fire when in 2011 it toppled a dictator that had ruled it for 27 years. Tunisia – the birth... Read more

A senior general in South Sudan has declared himself the leader of the country’s main opposition faction and called for the ousting of First Vice-President Riek Machar. The Chief of St... Read more

Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara is in self-isolation after being in contact with someone who had tested positive for Covid-19, the presidency has said. The name of the person was not... Read more

Zambia’s opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema has said police have blocked him from accessing Mbala and Mpulungu towns in the north. He tweeted photos of the late night incident saying... Read more

Medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has withdrawn from Cameroon’s North-West region after months of suspension by the authorities. The charity said it could not keep staying in an... Read more

One of the most powerful forces in Tunisian politics, the UGTT labour union, has urged President Kais Saied to quickly put in place a new government. Eight days ago, Mr Saied sacked the prim... Read more

The lawyer of a jailed Moroccan journalist, Soulaimane Raissouni, says his client is ready to suspend his 118 -day hunger strike, but that he must be taken to hospital. Mr Raissouni’s... Read more

A Senegalese university student is in trouble for disguising himself as a woman to sit his girlfriend’s school-leaving English paper. Images of Khadim Mboup dressed in women’s cl... Read more