Angeline Mukandutiye, the only woman in a group of 21 Rwandans facing terrorism charges, has admitted to recruiting girls for a Rwandan opposition group that operated in neighbouring Democra... Read more

Patients who are critically ill with Covid-19 are more likely to die in Africa than in any other region in the world. A study published by The Lancet attributes this to the shortage of cruci... Read more

Mali’s largest trade union says a nationwide strike that began on Monday was successful because the country “came to a standstill” with key sectors of the economy paralysed... Read more

The head of the World Health Organization has described the situation in Ethiopia’s conflict-hit Tigray region as horrific. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who is from Tigray, said people were d... Read more

Spain is deploying the army in its North African enclave of Ceuta to stem a huge influx of migrants from Morocco. A record 5,000 arrived on Monday. Moroccan border guards did nothing to stop... Read more

The son of long-serving Congo-Brazzaville President Denis Sassou Nguesso has been named minister in a new cabinet line-up. Denis Christel Sassou Nguesso will head the newly created ministry... Read more

Zimbabwe’s justice minister has accused the judiciary of overreach and said it had been “captured” by “foreign forces” in order to destabilise the county. It ca... Read more

Seven members of the Sudan military have been arrested and will be prosecuted in connection with the killing of two demonstrators in the capital, Khartoum, last week,. The head of the interi... Read more

Zimbabwe’s high court has ruled that the president’s extension of the chief justice’s term of office by five years is illegal. A group of lawyers had challenged the move which followed a rec... Read more

Gunmen have attacked and burnt down a police station in Nigeria’s south-eastern Abia state in continuing rising insecurity. Police officials in the state confirmed the attack but denie... Read more

A policeman has died in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, as rival Muslim groups clashed over the location of Eid celebrations. The divided community had agreed to m... Read more

Kenya MP Moses Kuria has told the BBC he received a $1,000 (£700) bribe in parliament last year to back the appointment of the majority leader. “It is not unusual for members to get th... Read more

Kenya’s High Court has declared a government-sponsored bill to amend Kenya’s constitution irregular, illegal and unconstitutional. It has also ruled that President Uhuru Kenyatta violated th... Read more

Zambia’s parliament has been dissolved exactly 90 days before the upcoming general election. The house held its last sitting on Wednesday and the clerk announced that it would formally... Read more