Philip Mpango has not been seen in public since late October, sparking rumours about his health.

Kenya follows Malawi in sending casual farm workers to fill a labour shortage on Israel’s farms.

The United States said Wednesday that Sudan’s rival forces have both committed war crimes in their brutal conflict, accusing the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces of ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.

The United States, European Union and Japan have promised to work cooperatively with Madagascan President Andry Rajoelina after his disputed re-election, provided he commits to electoral reforms.

Tigray’s state athletics federation tells the BBC that 76 athletes were killed during the bloody conflict in the Ethiopian region.

Rescue workers in Zambia have pulled out the first survivor of a Dec. 1 landslide that inundated a open-pit copper mine and trapped at least 25 people who were working there without a permit, the disaster management unit said on Wednesday.

Extreme temperatures keep rising as El Nino sweeps across the continent with no rain in sight, particularly in Southern Africa. Now five elephants have been reported dead as a result of dehydration in Zimbabwe.

The US this week introduced visa restrictions for people in Sudan, Zimbabwe and Uganda for their links to enabling conflict, human rights abuses and election rigging.

A decade after Nelson Mandela’s death, young South Africans are increasingly re-evaluating his legacy.

A Nigerian army drone strike accidently killed at least 85 civilians on Sunday in a village in northwest Kaduna State, officials said, in one of the country’s deadliest military bombing mishaps.

Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz was charged alongside 10 others for various corruption-related offences.

Six members of President Hage Geingob’s family, including his children, have travelled to Dubai.

The army was targeting “terrorists” when civilians were hit by accident, the state governor says.

Border officials say they stopped dozens of buses carrying young children from Zimbabwe.

SA checks for children travelling without their parents or guardians and, in some cases, without proper documentation.

President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone says his government is treating last week’s coup attempt purely as a matter of law and order, as he attempts to rally his nation in defence of democracy.

Holders South Africa qualify for the 2024 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations after wrapping up a 3-1 aggregate win over Burkina Faso.

It comes after the Supreme Court ruled proposals unlawful amid concerns about the Rwandan justice system.

For nearly three decades, the chaotic, overcrowded Owino secondhand market in Uganda’s capital has been the cornerstone of Hadija Nakimuli’s life, helping the widowed shopkeeper build a house and raise 12 children.

The president sends in security forces after 47 die and 80 are wounded in Hanang district.

Both nations’ military juntas say the G5 served foreign interests and has not made the region safer.