Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has accused the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) of starting to fight along aid corridors in the war-torn northern Tigray region. The TPLF, the fo... Read more

Lorries owned by Mozambicans have been looted and set on fire by protesters in neighbouring South Africa, an association of road transporters in Mozambique says. The Federation of Road Trans... Read more

South Africa’s opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema was temporarily barred from tweeting on his official account for violating Twitter guidelines, local medi... Read more

There’s anger especially among young supporters of Liberia’s governing Congress for Democratic Change party after a junior minister in the office of the president was videotaped splash... Read more

The African Union Commission has condemned the violence in South Africa that has left 72 people dead. Protests against the jailing of former president Jacob Zuma morphed into looting and des... Read more

Islamic police in Kano in northern Nigeria have arrested five men accused of breaking laws on homosexuality. Same-sex relationships are illegal across Nigeria under secular laws, and also pr... Read more

At least 30 people have died in the violence which has been engulfing parts of South Africa since the country’s former President Jacob Zuma handed himself into police last week. Almost... Read more

The UK envoy to South Sudan has urged South Sudanese citizens to hold their leaders accountable for promises they made, Bob Fairweather said while President Salva Kiir and his former rival R... Read more

Nigerian newspapers have jointly published the same front page as part of a campaign by the country’s media industry to oppose two media bills that they see as undermining press freedo... Read more

South Africa is deploying the military to tackle riots that have broken out over the jailing of former president Jacob Zuma. Shops were looted and buildings set on fire on Monday as Zuma cha... Read more

An official inquiry in Mozambique has confirmed reports of forced prostitution in a women’s prison in the capital, Maputo The government set up a commission of inquiry last month t... Read more

South Africa’s justice minister says former president Jacob Zuma will be eligible for parole after about four months. Ronald Lamola said this was a time for restraint, not celebration,... Read more

The senate in the Democratic Republic of Congo has lifted the immunity of former Prime Minister Matata Ponyo Mapon allowing investigations into misappropriation of public funds. Mr Mapon is... Read more

One of Mali’s former President Ibrahim Keïta’s son, Karim, is wanted by Interpol over the disappearance of a journalist in 2016. The local journalist, Birama Touré, went missing... Read more