Former world number two Ons Jabeur announces that she is pregnant with her first child....
Alex Iwobi says Nigeria will have to "lock up" Gabon striker, and his former Arsenal team-mate, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang when the sides meet in African play-offs for the 2026 World Cup....
Members of Parliament in Tanzania still have to be sworn-in before they can take their seats....
His spokesman says it is politically motivated and he will contact the EFCC on his return from the UK....
They include items looted by British colonial soldiers and others from the AngloGold Ashanti mining firm....
The Ndimande brothers are expected to appear in court on Tuesday....
Egypt held the first round of parliamentary elections on Monday....
As Nigeria, Cameroon, DR Congo, Gabon face off in African play-offs, BBC Sport Africa looks at how one nation can still reach the 2026 World Cup....
Namibia's Emma Theofelus has raised concerns around AI and public digital literacy...
Zuma-Sambudla is accused of fuelling a wave of protests that hit South Africa after her father's arrest....
Mariam Cissé, said to be in her 20s, was accused of providing information to the army....
Zanu PF has dismissed claims that it is targeting opposition politician Job Sikhala....
Some residents in the heart of the South African city are living amid sewage in derelict buildings run by criminal gangs....
Tottenham Hotspur striker Randal Kolo Muani was substituted at halftime in World Cup qualifiers....
Chadema and some human rights activists say that security forces killed more than 1,000 people....
As the two nations vie for key materials, the US has regained the lead in foreign direct investments in African countries....
The museum authority has cancelled all preview events leading up to Tuesday's grand opening....
Tunisian Prisons Authority denied that the prisoners’ health had deteriorated due to hunger strikes....
The manner of Samia Suluhu Hassan's re-election has earned the country a rare rebuke from the African Union....
South African Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, accused of stoking deadly protests, denies the charges....
Ramaphosa has stepped in to take over as SADC chairman....
Trump says no US official will be sent to the summit over discredited claims that Afrikaners are being persecuted....
But the new economics of camel herding also means higher prices....
The pair were reportedly bundled into a car by masked men after attending an event to support Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine....
SADEC Executive Secretary is Elias Magosi says SA was the deputy SADEC chair and has now taken over...
Thousands of Kenyans, who fought for Britain, are buried in unknown locations and were never commemorated....
A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent and beyond....
Robert James Purkiss faces extradition over allegations he murdered Agnes Manjiru....
The warlord remains at large but victims hope the ICC charges will renew efforts to capture him....
Nigeria has over 200 ethnic groups practicing Christianity, Islam and traditional faiths....
The blockade, imposed by jihadists, has upended daily life in the landlocked nation....
The electoral commission declared incumbent President Samia Suluhu Hassan the winner....
The reported strikes come as the military-led government says it would be wary of agreeing to a ceasefire....
Some Kenyans have reportedly been killed, injured and others detained by Tanzanian security officers....
ICC has confirmed that Uganda's fugitive warlord Joseph Kony has been charged with war crimes....
Nigeria’s Health Director- General addressed the G20 Health Ministers' meeting in Limpopo....
Mugabe Jr was detained during a routine stop in the affluent Borrowdale suburb...
The war between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) erupted in April 2023....
The group has since agreed to a proposal for a humanitarian ceasefire, it said on Thursday....
The group issued the statement after an 18-month siege of the city of el-Fasher in the western Darfur region....
This follows confirmation by a global hunger monitor that famine conditions are spreading in conflict zones....
The last comparable incident was in May 2024, when suspected pirates boarded a Liberian vessel....
The US leader has repeatedly accused South Africa of persecuting its white minority - which Pretoria denies....
Paul Biya has been in power since 1982 - the opposition says the election was rigged....
The attack comes amid a resurgence of piracy in the region in recent days....
The Chadema politician was seized before the presidential elections, which AU observers say was "compromised"....
It is unclear whether the citizens were fighting on behalf of Russia or Ukraine....
Samia Suluhu Hassan was declared the landslide winner of Tanzania's elections on October 29....
Donald Trump says thousands of Christians are being killed in Nigeria - where has he got the numbers from?...
A professor describes Mamdani as "one of us" while some young Ugandans take inspiration from the 34-year-old's victory....
Nationals from South Sudan have a 60-day grace period to leave the United States....
Zohran is the son of renowned Ugandan academic Mahmood Mamdani....
Operation Dudula has been picketing clinics and hospital, turning away those without South African papers....
Morocco controls much of Western Sahara, although part of it is controlled by a pro-independence movement....
A BBC investigation finds evidence that young African women are being tricked into building Russian drones....
The plan would establish a legislative, executive and judicial authority for Western Sahara....
The boy, 14 and from London, took his parents to court after they sent him to school in Africa....
Families continue to search for or bury relatives, a day after President Samia Suluhu Hassan was sworn in....
Nearly half of the deaths recorded by the UN occurred in Cameroon's Littoral region...
The paramilitary RSF has been blamed for the attack as fighting in the oil-rich Kordofan area intensifies....
Nigeria's Foreign Minister said religious persecution was "impossible" under the country's laws...
Trump is accusing the Nigerian government of allowing the killing of Christians....
Mohamed Hamdan Dagolo will either lead a breakaway state or seek to take control of the whole country, Sudanese say....
Col Mamadi Doumbouya has broken his promise to hand power to a civilian government....
More than 40 people are known to have died since last week, according to officials....
Lines formed at cash points as the walkout started....
Tanzania President Samia Suluhu Hassan was sworn into office on Monday for her first elected term....
President Samia faced little opposition with key rivals either imprisoned or barred from running....
Trump threatened military action against Nigeria, accusing them of allowing killing of Christians....
An AI chatbot and app for victims of abuse to get help is being piloted in South Africa....
The 3,500-year-old stone head was likely stolen during the Arab Spring uprising....
The stand-off has led some citizens to call for a national dialogue....
The US president says his threat is over killings of Christians - though experts say there is no evidence they are disproportionately targeted....
Main opposition party CHADEMA was barred from the election for refusing to sign a code of conduct....
The plan would establish a legislative, executive, and judicial authority for Western Sahara...
Kenya's government says 30 other people are missing following downpours in the west of the country....
Key permanent Council members including the US, France and the UK all now back the autonomy plan....
ECOWAS is the West African regional organisation, watch ECOWAS celebrates 50 years....
Nineteen people have been rescued and an unknown number are still missing....
The launch of the billion-dollar site sees fresh calls for the return of antiquities held in museums overseas....
Samia Suluhu Hassan had won, with nearly 98% of the votes, says Tanzania's electoral ....
Western Sahara has been one of Africa's longest-running territorial dispute since Spain left in 1975...
Demonstrations continued on Friday as young protesters denounced the election as unfair....
Fifteen countries established the regional bloc to build a strong, united economic region....
A 12-year-old tells the BBC that in the chaos he lost contact with his family and is now on his own at a camp....
El-Fasher is under the control of paramilitaries accused of mass executions and crimes against humanity....
Pretoria rubbishes claims of a white genocide and quotes prominent Afrikaners who dub Trump's plans racist....
Violent protests broke out in Tanzania’ on Wednesday during an election....
Some deaths have been reported though accurate figures are hard to obtain due to the internet shutdown....
The court sets aside the 1967 inquest that found that the anti-apartheid hero was hit by a goods train....
Harrowing accounts from people who have escaped an RSF assault on the besieged city of el-Fasher....
Morocco considers the territory as its own and is pitted against the Algeria-backed Polisario Front...
The move, which will apply for the next fiscal year, marks a dramatic cut from the previous limit of 125,000....
The war is in strategic stalemate, but Sudan is no-one's priority - an orphan in a region that is ablaze....
Violent protests broke out in Tanzania’ on Wednesday during an election....
Tensions remain with protests expected to continue, after demonstrations were reported in some towns overnight....
Some are warning of a genocide unfolding in Darfur - violence that is linked to killings there 20 years ago....
The UN Security Council will hold an emergency session on the Sudan crisis on Thursday....
Parents are struggling to feed their children in war-hit Sudan's Darfur region....
The announcement comes after growing reports of the mass killings, including of patients at a hospital....