Al Shabaab said in a statement that its fighters had captured the base and Wargaadhi town...
The finance minister has warned that spending cuts or a rise in other taxes could follow....
This is the deadliest known attack since insurgents began operating in Benin at the beginning of the decade....
Tanzanian bananas are among the things hit after Malawi stopped them from coming into the country....
The session apparently paved the way towards direct talks between Congo and M23....
Both parties reaffirm their commitment to an "immediate cessation of hostilities" in latest truce deal....
Tundu Lissu has survived against the political odds over the years but has now been charged with treason....
Volodymyr Zelensky is on a historic visit to South Africa to counter Russia's influence on the continent....
How mishandling of land reform evicted many white farmers, ‘enriched elites’ and left black Zimbabweans in poverty....
Three-time Olympic and world 1500m champion Faith Kipyegon is to attempt to become the first woman to run a sub-four minute mile....
Donald Trump "highly values Africa and African people", says his African envoy, Massad Boulos....
This is the first time in Ghana's history that a president has removed a chief justice from office....
WFP suspended malnutrition treatment for 650 000 malnourished women and children in Ethiopia....
Despite having the world's fastest-growing Catholic population, odds are against Africa producing the next pontiff....
In 2023, Thiam was elected leader of PDCI, one of the country's main opposition parties...
A court argued Tidjane Thiam forfeited his Ivorian nationality when he became a French citizen in 1987....
An investigation has been launched into allegations against Gertrude Torkornoo, Ghana's third female chief justice....
South Sudan's opposition accused government forces of attacking one of its military positions near the capital on Tuesday as a fragile power-sharing agreement unravelled further....
A lack of cash has forced the UN to halt live-saving aid to 650,000 women and children from May....
Zimbabwe's indefinite national shutdown due to start after the Easter weekend - called for by war veterans leader Blessed Geza - failed to take off on Tuesday....
A scheme is offering female prisoners in West Africa an opportunity to earn a football coaching badge which could help them get a job after their release....
The plotters, some ex-army officers, hatched the plan in Ivory Coast, the authorities say....
The Archbishop of Abuja in Nigeria speaks to the BBC about how the next pontiff could be selected....
The African Unite Borders Bus Trucks Association says it will embark on a two-day national shutdown....
African nations have enjoyed duty-free access to the US market for over two decades under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), up for renewal in September. How prepared are they should Trump...
South Sudan's army said it had recaptured a key town in Upper Nile state....
South Africa, according to the Nigerian government, has a global reputation in mining....
The conflict in the eastern part of the DRC led to Kabila contemplating going back to his country....
African Catholics, who are becoming more important in the Church, remember a man who spoke for them....
Francis traveled to Congo in 2023, showing commitment to a country wracked by decades of violence....
Ethiopia's answer to The Bachelor has prompted discussions about dating norms in the conservative country....
Zimbabweans may have an extended Easter holiday as war veterans leader and expelled Zanu-PF member Blessed Geza called for another national shutdown to force President Emmerson Mnangagwa to step down....
Top MK official Floyd Shivambu attended an Easter service at Shepherd Bushiri's church in Malawi....
The M23 have taken two major cities in the mineral-rich east since the start of the year....
The child was snatched from a residential compound on a ranch next to Nairobi National Park, the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) said....
Joseph Kabila has reportedly returned to the country after spending two years in South Africa....
Years of clashes have disrupted food supplies from north-central Nigeria, a major agricultural area....
Fighting between rival forces resumes in South Sudan, while a full-scale civil war rages in neighbouring Sudan....
Last weekend the election commission said CHADEMA would be disqualified from the election....
Rights groups say Saied has had full control over judiciary since he dissolved parliament in 2021....
The defendants get sentences of up to 66 years after a trial described by a defence lawyer as a farce....
Ugandan study finds oral antibiotics can treat pneumonia in children as effectively as injections....
A top Somali actor is targeted in a revenge killing shortly after making a film warning about such feuds....
Inhabitants of Sudan's biggest camp for displaced people have had their lives upturned once again....
Seasoned business executive Tidjane Thiam is named as the candidate for Ivory Coast's main opposition party....
A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent and beyond....
The US says a new Zambian law is more intrusive than equivalents in many other countries....
Heavy fighting broke out on Wednesday after al-Shabab raided the town, saying they had captured it....
Al-Shabaab says its forces had overrun 10 military installations and captured the town....
Amnesty says it found that security forces used reckless and unnecessary force on protestors...
The RSF seized control of the camp on Sunday after a four-day assault...
Gabon international Aaron Boupendza has died at the age of 28 after reportedly falling from a building in China....
Solar energy is booming in Niger, one of the world's sunniest countries, with sales of increasingly cheap solar panels going up and new projects coming online....
He is the first non-US citizen to be convicted of torture in an American court for crimes committed abroad....
Milkias Maekele is among the growing number of African cyclists with a professional deal, and the Eritrean teenager has been tipped to follow in the footsteps of Biniam Girmay....
The tech billionaire is embroiled in a row with the government over black empowerment legislation....
Calls for reparations are longstanding but have been gaining momentum worldwide....
Three people have died in the "high-intensity shootout" that led to Josh Sullivan's rescue, officials say....
The country is experiencing the worst humanitarian crisis in the world two years into a bloody civil war....
Their free trade bloc seeks to create a single market for goods and services across Africa....
Sudan entered its third year of war on Tuesday, with no sign of respite for war-weary civilians....
Behind a dimly lit bar in Malawi's capital, Ben Manda rubbed his tired eyes and poured a customer a drink. He had been working for 36 hours straight, packing in back-to-back shifts to feed his family...
Foreigners are however allowed to buy gold directly from GoldBod, a new state regulator....
Two Belgians, one Vietnamese and one Kenyan pleaded guilty on Monday....
People share videos of themselves crying, saying that they cannot withdraw their money on CBEX....
Britain says it will provide 120 million pounds more in aid to people in Sudan....
The UK is promising an extra $120m (£91m) worth of food and medical assistance....
Diplomats and aid officials are seeking a way to end the violence and suffering in what is considered the world's worst humanitarian crisis. But no one representing Sudan will be present at the talks....
Rare accounts of life in el-Fasher - the last major city in Darfur controlled by the Sudanese army....
Bilie by Nze conceded defeat but questioned election fairness after Nguema's win....
It is believed the ants were destined for exotic pet markets in Europe and Asia....
The move is Algeria's biggest expulsion of French consular staff since it gained independence in 1962....
Relations are at an all-time low - South Africa's ambassador to the US was expelled last month....
A court in Mauritius has granted bail to a former finance minister charged with fraud....
Coup leader Brice Oligui Nguema topped the presidential vote with over 90% of the vote, the Interior Ministry said. The military junta has been in power since earlier presidential elections prompted t...
France said the move was in response to the indictment of three Algerians in Paris on Friday....
An official ruling, that Albert Luthuli died in an accident in 1967, has long been queried by his family....
He vowed to diversify the country’s oil-reliant economy....
The coup mastermind Gen Brice Oligui Nguema changed the constitution to allow him to run....
One charity says nine workers at one of its clinics died as medical facilities were targeted....
Some Zimbabweans smuggle goods they buy in South Africa across the Limpopo River....
Seven other travellers were taken to the intensive care unit of a hospital in the capital Maiduguri....
Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed the controversial Private Voluntary Organisations Amendment Bill into law on Friday....
The former army general has campaigned across Gabon wearing a baseball cap....
The people of Gabon are set to vote in presidential elections today, after months without elections....
About one million voters are set to pick their next president from a list of eight hopefuls....
Intense rivalries between supporters of Arsenal, and other English football clubs, has led to deaths in the East African nation....
This is the first polls since a 2023 coup that ended Bongo family's 56 year dynasty....
Police say four armed and masked men abducted the pastor in his car on Thursday evening....
The Zimbabwean government has started dishing out land to members of parliament just a week after war veteran leader Blessed Geza called for the impeachment of President Emmerson Mnangagwa....
On the track Eedris Abdulkareem urges the leader's son to tell his father about everyday hardships....
Saturday's election marks a major test for a coup leader who wants the democratic stamp of approval....
With the vice-president under arrest there are concerns a political rift could spiral into conflict....
Ivory Coast exports between 200 000 and 300 000 metric tons of cocoa to the U.S. each year....
He has been holding rallies nationwide saying October's elections cannot go ahead without reforms....
Who is Gen Brice Nguema, the man who overthrew the president he was supposed to protect?...
Sudan told the International Court of Justice on Thursday that the United Arab Emirates was violating the Genocide Convention by supporting paramilitary forces in Darfur, but the UAE argued the case s...
Saturday's election comes after military officers led by Brice Oligui Nguema seized power....
The play critical of the government was initially disqualified from the competition under unclear circumstances....
Sudan's government alleges that the UAE is arming its civil war opponents, which it denies....