South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has dissolved parliament, paving the way for the appointment of MPs from opposing sides in the country’s five-year civil war. Activists and civ... Read more

The military in Chad has claimed victory against northern rebels following weeks of fighting. The conflict against Libya-based rebels threw the country into a crisis when President Idriss Dé... Read more

Tanzania’s south-western city of Mbeya is running out of condoms, councillors have warned – according to the country’s Mwananchi newspaper. The issue was reportedly raised at a me... Read more

The Zulu Queen, Mantfombi Dlamini-Zulu, who died unexpectedly last week, has been buried in a private ceremony in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province. She was appointed regent of the... Read more

The officials of Tanganyika province in the Democratic Republic of Congo have impeached Governor Zoe Kabila – a younger of former President Joseph Kabila. The impeachment motion was su... Read more

The Catholic Bishop of Enugu in Nigeria, Callistus Onaga, has called for week-long prayers over church vandalism by supporters of a controversial priest. On Wednesday supporters of Father Ej... Read more

The Zulu queen, Shiyiwe Mantfombi Dlamini Zulu, is due to be laid to rest in a private ceremony South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province. She died unexpectedly in Johannesburg last week,... Read more

Protesters in the south-eastern Nigerian city of Enugu went into wild jubilation after a popular Catholic priest was seen hours after protests were held over his absence. Father Mbaka report... Read more

A Ugandan former child soldier who became a commander of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army has been sentenced to 25 years in jail by the International Criminal Court (ICC). Dominic Ongw... Read more

Dominic Ongwen, the Ugandan rebel commander who has just been sentenced to 25 years in jail, was the first former child solider to be convicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC)... Read more

The secretary-general of South Africa’s African National Congress (ANC) has refused to comply with his suspension after being charged with corruption. The dispute illustrates a power s... Read more

Ace Magashule, the suspended secretary general of South Africa’s governing party ANC, has hit back by seeking to suspend President Cyril Ramaphosa as president of the party. “I h... Read more

The remaining 27 students abducted from a forestry college in the northern Nigerian state of Kaduna have been freed. They were among 39 students seized from their dormitories by armed crimin... Read more

A 25-year-old Malian woman has given birth to nine babies – two more than doctors had detected during scans. Halima Cisse gave birth to the nonuplets in Morocco. Mali’s governmen... Read more