Zambian health authorities have expressed concern over rising coronavirus-related deaths, as the country continues to battle a third wave of the infections. Health Permanent Secretary Dr Ken... Read more

Malawi’s former ruling party turned opposition wants last year’s election nullified saying it was presided over by an electoral management body that was illegally constituted. The Demo... Read more

Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia’s first president and a key figure in its independence struggle, has died at the age of 97, his family has confirmed. Kaunda was admitted to a hospital in the ca... Read more

Mozambique’s justice ministry has suspended the entire management of a women’s prison after the country’s anti-corruption body found that inmates were being forced into pros... Read more

A video from the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram has been published, confirming the death of its leader, Abubakar Shekau. Last month, a rival faction claimed Shekau had been killed during... Read more

South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardit and and First Vice-President Riek Machar have instructed government agencies to speed up the graduation of army recruits. The two leaders discusse... Read more

Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo is expected to return home, 10 years after he was taken to the International Criminal Court (ICC) on charges of crimes against humanity. Mr Gbagbo... Read more

Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has warned that there is a risk of the country descending into chaos and civil war and blamed loyalists of the former administration. He said the... Read more

Algeria’s ruling party, the National Liberation Front (FLN), has won most seats in last Saturday’s parliamentary election, which saw a low turnout of 23%. The FLN grabbed 105 out... Read more

Two soldiers in Equatorial Guinea have been charged with homicide and negligence in a military court following explosions in March at a munitions depot in Bata city that left 107 people dead... Read more

Nigeria’s government holds Twitter and its CEO Jack Dorsey indirectly liable for the losses the country suffered during the EndSars protest, the country’s information minister has told a cal... Read more

Customers with Mozambique’s mobile company TMcel will not be able to phone people using the Vodacom network from Thursday because of an unpaid debt of about $9.6m (£6.8m). Vodacom, the domin... Read more

Criticism that the International Criminal Court (ICC) is only interested in going after Africans was part of a “propaganda” campaign by those who wanted to discredit the court, its outgoing... Read more

The president of Zambia Edgar Lungu fainted on Sunday during the country’s televised official annual ceremony for the National Defence Forces Day — which was immediately interrupted followin... Read more