If Donald Trump wins November’s US presidential election and returns to the White House, what will it mean for American relations in Africa?

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has resolved to lift a 21-year moratorium on death penalty executions as part of measures to stop its citizens, and serving military and police, from working with M23 rebels in the eastern part of the country.

There are about 30 African countries where tontines are used, and 14 in Asia. In South Africa, it is known as a stokvel

While Nigerian soldiers search the forests in the northwestern state for the 280 learners kidnapped by gunmen riding motorbikes, desperate families are still waiting for news

Kenya, Eswatini, Ghana, Malawi, and Rwanda have joined together against a common enemy: Snakebites.

Senegalese opposition firebrand Ousmane Sonko and the presidential candidate he is backing in the March 24 election, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, were released from prison on Thursday, state broadcaster RTS said on its website.

The leader of an apostolic sect in Zimbabwe was charged with exploiting minors on Thursday after police said hundreds of children were abused at his church’s farm.

About 50 people have died in Angola after being forced to drink a herbal potion to prove they were not practising witchcraft, police and local officials said on Thursday.

Memorabilia of late president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Laurent-Désiré Kabila, computers, and phones belonging to a foundation dedicated to his legacy have been confiscated in a raid by the state in Kinshasa.

Major African cocoa plants in Ivory Coast and Ghana have stopped or cut processing because they cannot afford to buy beans, four trading sources said, meaning chocolate prices around the world are likely to soar.

Globally, more children are surviving today than ever before, as child mortality – the death of children under the age of five – hit historic lows in 2022.

Gunmen who kidnapped 286 pupils and staff from a school in northern Nigeria last week have demanded a total of 1 billion naira (R11 600 000) for their release, a spokesperson for the families of the hostages, and a local councillor said.

A new mpox (formerly monkeypox) outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is linked to sexual behaviour among heterosexual people, researchers say.

Without critical action, nearly 230 000 children and new mothers in war-ravaged Sudan are “likely to die from hunger”, Save the Children warned on Wednesday.

Sudan’s army said on Tuesday it had taken control of the state broadcast building from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), its paramilitary rival that seized the site in the first days of the war nearly 11 months ago.

Rwanda’s president has agreed to meet his Congolese counterpart to discuss security in the volatile east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola’s foreign minister said Monday.

Medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Monday warned of “catastrophic levels of malnutrition” and an escalating humanitarian crisis in northwest Nigeria.

According to a new analysis, Africa’s country borders were not arbitrarily drawn by colonial powers, but owe more to major rivers and precolonial states.

Pope Francis has called for prayers for the Democratic Republic of the Congo, including it alongside Gaza and Ukraine with the plea: “May the hostilities that cause immense suffering to the civilian population cease as soon as possible.”

Before they get inside a stadium, they must deal all too often with corruption, negligence and abuse from sports managers and administrators

Students were just about to settle into their classes after singing Nigeria’s national anthem when the gunshots rang out. Then chaos erupted.