Uganda's military chief, the son of President Yoweri Museveni, says he is holding an opposition activist in his basement and has threatened violence against him, after the man's party said he was abdu...
The social media giant has challenged demands to pay $290m over regulatory violations....
Tidjane Thiam is challenging a court decision removing him from the electoral roll ahead of October's poll....
Joshlin Smith's disappearance last year sent shockwaves across South Africa. She is yet to be found....
The bodyguard of opposition leader Bobi Wine went missing five days ago, leading to fears for his safety....
Governors in northeastern Nigeria have called for measures to tackle the roots of a 16-year-long Islamic militant insurgency. A recent uptick in violence has sparked calls for action....
DRC farmers are facing new challenges as they return to tend fields now under rebel control....
A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent and beyond....
The withdrawal is informed by the directive from the SADC heads of state summit in March....
Attorney General Dorcas Oduor said Kenya would review the recommendations made during the session....
The attack on a Catholic priest comes amid rising political tensions ahead of October's elections....
Mali's military government has kicked out French and other Western forces and turned towards Russia...
He is accused of backing M23 rebels in the east but he has previously denied links to the group....
The MP was pronounced dead at a hospital where he had been rushed for medical care....
The opposition legislator had just left parliament when he was attacked by gunmen on a motorcycle, police say....
One man's struggle to save Uganda's once-profitable trees that produce shea butter....
A Kenyan lawmaker was shot dead on Wednesday night in the capital Nairobi by gunmen on motorcycles....
Several apartheid-era atrocities, like murder, have been uncovered but few have made it to court....
Visit Rwanda signs a sponsorship deal with Atletico Madrid as Arsenal fans continue to call for their club to end its agreement with the tourism board....
US President Donald Trump's senior Africa adviser met with Congolese and Rwandan representatives in Doha on Wednesday, the envoy said, after the two sides agreed to negotiate an end to the conflict in...
Gen Assimi Goïta, who has seized power twice, had previously promised to hold elections....
The three officers had been missing for six days before divers recovered their bodies....
Taiwanese are warned against traveling to Somalia or Somaliland for their own safety before the ban is lifted....
The top job at the African Development Bank is up for grabs, with the election slated for 29 May. Five candidates vying to lead the bank have been sharing their visions for the next five years....
MTN Nigeria, the mobile operator's biggest market, returned to profit in its first quarter to end March, benefiting from relatively stable naira as well as the first upward adjustment to mobile tariff...
SADC terminated the deployment of its troops to the DRC last month....
The wire service quotes a spokesperson for the Rwandan army for the report....
Southern African troops have started evacuating the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where they had been stranded since a January offensive by the M23 armed group....
The family of Osinachi Nwachukwu accused her husband of abusing the popular gospel singer before her death....
A BBC investigation identifies members of the security forces who shot dead protesters last June....
Tanzania has lifted a ban on the import of SA's agricultural products until further notice after acknowledging Pretoria's willingness to resolve trade issues....
Another discovery off the coast of Namibia has spurred industry optimism that the southern African nation can develop into an exciting new oil province....
Insurgents have been battling Nigerian security forces for over 15 years in the northeast....
Historians say there were three popes of North African descent, the last one more than 1,500 years ago....
A court case which found Nigeria's leading football bodies to be negligent for the death of a player is hailed as a "landmark" by global players' union Fifpro....
Nguema is set to be inaugurated on May 3, marking the beginning of his seven-year term....
Mac-Albert Hengari was arrested on Saturday after allegedly attempting to bribe the woman to withdraw the case....
Ethiopia expects to reach an agreement on the review of its IMF $3.4 billion loan programme....
The BBC exposes the members of the security forces who fired on protesters at Kenya’s parliament last year....
Hengari was fired folowing the allegations that he bribed a rape victim not to report the case....
Jihadists have killed at least 14 farmers in a raid on farmlands in Nigeria's northeastern Borno state, with a local official warning that the toll may rise....
The Vatican's representative to South Sudan says the Pope's memory should be honoured by seeking peace....
Starlink has embarked on an Africa expansion and plans to cover nearly 3 quarters of the continent....
Ebola infections are frequent in Uganda which has many tropical forests that are natural reservoirs....
A medic sparks a national conversation about the financial abuse some female breadwinners face....
The identity of a Nigerian baby brought to the UK remains unknown after an "extraordinary" court case....
Sudan's national museum is among the institutions that have been looted and vandalised during the war....
DRC-Rwanda accord signed in Washington is more about minerals than peace, says expert Tumushabe....
The two neighbouring nations sign a US-brokered deal aimed at stopping the fighting in eastern DR Congo....
Following the crackdown, some traders have resorted to selling their goods in secret, the BBC hears....
The Central African Republic's government has signed peace deals with two of the five groups in the country's most powerful armed rebel movement, officials said Friday....
However, it is not clear where the funding will come from, raising questions about where it is feasible....
People are trekking under "blistering" heat to escape "horrific circumstances", the BBC is told....
Threatened by armed conflict, volcanic activity and rampant deforestation, Africa's oldest national park is turning to chocolate gorillas to raise its profile and boost conservation....
A group of Arsenal fans believe the Premier League club should not renew its sponsorship deal with Visit Rwanda if it "values standards"....
The Basketball Africa League is is leveraging the power of entertainment to help grow the game on the continent and boost Africa's creative economy....
The Congolese government and opposing rebel movements have agreed to a ceasefire. It comes at a time when tensions have reached a boiling point following reports that former President Joseph Kabila ha...
The 65-year-old suspect is also charged with visa fraud while seeking to become a US citizen in 2013....
The country also hopes the investments will help develop its nascent rail industry....
Mining accidents are rife in the giant Central African country...
Lecturers from the University of Zimbabwe in Harare, embarked on a strike on Thursday with a street demonstration outside the institution to demand better salaries and working conditions....
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....