Secondary school students in Malawi are finally sitting exams which were cancelled in November after exam papers were leaked. Students were initially scheduled to sit the Malawi School Certi... Read more

France has opened investigations into former Democratic Republic of Congo rebel leader Roger Lumbala. He is accused of “complicity in crimes against humanity” for his actions dur... Read more

Al-Qaeda’s branch in Mali, Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), claims it was behind a roadside blast on Saturday that killed two French soldiers in the eastern Menaka region. T... Read more

Seychelles has recorded its first death from Covid-19, the respiratory disease caused by coronavirus. The patient was a 57-year-old Seychellois man who was hospitalised on New Year’s e... Read more

United Nations human rights experts have called on Uganda to drop charges against activists and opposition supporters arrested ahead of next month’s presidential election. They said th... Read more

Rwanda has deployed what it called a “protection force” to the Central African Republic after its peacekeepers there were attacked by rebels advancing to the capital, Bangui. The... Read more

The United Nations has announced a $35m (£26m) emergency aid package for civilians caught up in the fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. Government forces have been battling Tigray fighters... Read more

Burundi’s former President Pierre Buyoya has died, according to the head of communications in the president’s office, Willy Nyamitwe. He tweeted that “the death of the form... Read more

Boko Haram has said it was behind the kidnapping of hundreds of schoolboys in Nigeria’s north-western Katsina State, hinting at the group’s continued expansive and deadly reach i... Read more

Heads of states from Benin, Togo and the Ghana watched as Ivory Coast’s President Alassane Ouattara took the oath of office on Monday for the third time, in the midst of a political cr... Read more

The authorities in Nigeria say the have arrested two suspected members of a transnational kidnap syndicate linked to the abduction of an American citizen in October. Philippe Nathan Walton,... Read more

Uganda’s only female presidential candidate Nancy Kalembe has suspended campaigns over lack of funds. Ms Kalembe made the announcement while appealing for funds from the public. She sa... Read more

A former Tanzanian opposition MP Godbless Lema has been granted asylum in Canada, Kenyan media reports. He had fled to Kenya through the Lungalunga border and was briefly detained before bei... Read more