Scandal surrounds King Misuzulu's attempts to take a third wife - and to divorce his first one....
Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie tells the BBC's Emma Barnett about her experience of writer's block....
Young women in Kenya tell the BBC they have used TikTok to sell sexual content since they were teenagers....
Around 40 diplomats, politicians, and journalists are accused of conspiring against state security....
Children as young as one have been subjected to horrific sexual violence, a UN report finds....
Gen Brice Nguema said he was responding to people's "many appeals" to run for president next month....
Rwanda had asked for additional money it said it was owed after the UK suspended aid to the country....
Lesotho says it is surprised by Trump's comments given its "warm and cordial" relations with the US....
Africa's Sahel region accounts for more than half of terror-related killings, a new reports says....
Thousands of Congolese are opting make a dangerous river crossing to get to safety in Burundi....
Namibia's president says Sam Nujoma left citizens with gifts of freedom and independence....
The fatality brings the number of confirmed cases in Uganda to 10....
Botswana's Minister, Dr Phenyo Butale, says African countries should trade with each other....
Guinea-Bissau's President Umaro Sissoco Embalo threatened to expel a political mission...
The trials have yielded death sentences for more than 260 soldiers, including 55 in Musienene....
UN says M23 rebels launched an offensive in eastern DRC abducting 130 hospital patients....
The Botswana government in 2022 imposed the ban in order to protect its domestic farmers...
Guinea-Bissau's President said he would run for a second term in November....
The M23 rebels have seized several towns and villages since 2021 and displaced millions....
Mozambique recently experienced violent protests following the disputed polls....
The World Food Programme has halted aid distribution in the Zamzam camp in North Darfur. WFP officials said intensified fighting between the military and RSF paramilitary forced them to stop providing...
MTN Nigeria, the mobile operator’s largest market, has reported a threefold increase in its annual loss, driven by foreign exchange pressures and a sharp rise in operating expenses....
The blasts rocked a meeting of the M23 armed group in eastern DRC's second-largest city. Some 65 people were injured....
Namibia's Supreme Court dismissed a challenge against last year's presidential election brought by opposition parties, clearing the way for the ruling party's Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah to take office....
Sam Nujoma, Namibia's independence leader, has been buried in a state funeral. Thousands of Namibians have already paid homage to the widely revered former president in almost a month of official mour...
Four predominantly Muslim states in northern Nigeria have ordered the closure of schools for the holy month of Ramadan, drawing the threat of nationwide protests on Monday from an education union....
Lema Tefera's voice broke as he described losing four children to malaria in just one month - deaths that could likely have been prevented if not for the conflict in Ethiopia's Oromia region....
Germany has halted new development aid to Rwanda and is reviewing its existing commitments in response to the African nation's role in the conflict in neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo, th...
Mozambican President Daniel Chapo has told President Cyril Ramaphosa the situation in his country was "good and now working"....
Many African countries are facing acute economic challenges. As the number of super-rich on the continent grows, so do calls to impose wealth taxes....