The United Nations says it needs urgent access to tens of thousands of vulnerable people in Tigray in northern Ethiopia. The UN children’s agency (Unicef) said roads needed to be opene... Read more

Two suspected jihadists have been arrested over the Solhan attack in the north-eastern region of Burkina Faso on 4 June in which more than 130 people were killed. The prosecutor announced th... Read more

Kenya will set up a “fill and finish” vaccine plant where the last process of filling vials and packaging them for distribution will be done to increase supplies. President Uhuru... Read more

Ivory Coast’s former President Laurent Gbagbo has criticised the International Criminal Court (ICC) for being biased. The 76-year-old, who was acquitted of charges of crimes against hu... Read more

Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of a separatist group that wants a breakaway state in eastern Nigeria, has been arrested. His movement, the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob), has been labelled as a... Read more

This was a scathing, and hugely significant judgement against Jacob Zuma. The Constitutional Court didn’t simply find him in contempt, but spelled out the many ways in which South Africa’s f... Read more

The daughter of South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma has said that her father was ready to comply with a 15-month jail term handed by the Constitutional Court, News24 report... Read more

South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma has been sentenced to 15 months by the highest court in the country. This came after the Constitutional Court found him guilty of contempt af... Read more

Burkinabe President Roch Kaboré has called on opposition and civil society groups to cancel planned nationwide protests against rising insecurity in the country. In a televised address... Read more

The United Nations has called on states to stop denying racism and start dismantling it. At the launch of a report commissioned after the killing last year in the US of George Floyd, the UN... Read more

Nigerian music star Burna Boy is this year’s winner of the Best International Act at the BET Awards. Burna Boy, real name is Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu, was crowned the winner of the award for t... Read more

The South African women’s football team has cancelled their trip to the Netherlands at the last minute after five positive Covid-19 tests among those set to travel. The entire delegati... Read more

“Battle lines” have been drawn in a row over who should succeed to South Africa’s Zulu throne, Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi has said. He serves as the traditional prime minister for the Zulu n... Read more

The Ethiopian military has rejected claims that its plane which crashed in the Tigray region on Wednesday was shot down by rebels. An army spokesman told the BBC that the military plane suff... Read more