SA pointed to Rwanda as M23 rebels fought South African soldiers in the eastern DRC. Rwanda says Congolese armed forces – with the support of an SA-led mission – violated a ceasefire.

Congolese M23 rebels entered the centre of the eastern city of Goma, two witnesses said, hours after they claimed to have seized the city despite the United Nations Security Council demanding an end to the offensive.

The expansion project will see the port’s capacity more than double in just two years.

Congolese M23 rebels have entered the centre of the eastern city of Goma, two witnesses told Reuters.

The World Athletics Male Athlete of the Year 2024 has just become the global ambassador for the De Beers Group.

An attack on the main hospital in El-Fasher, a besieged town in western Sudan, has killed 70 people and wounded 19 others, the World Health Organisation chief said.

The disputed victory would mark a major push by the army in Khartoum, where RSF forces have had a strong presence and a tight siege of the army’s General Command, its Signal Corps camp, and the presidential palace.

The DR Congo army and M23 fighters clashed outside Goma on Friday as the UK, United States and France urged citizens to leave the main city in the country’s volatile east, warning the situation could deteriorate rapidly.

Almost 200 people arrested when recent protests descended into looting in South Sudan remain on the loose following a huge jailbreak, police said on Wednesday.

Oil has spilled for weeks in Nigeria’s delta region from a well apparently damaged by thieves and which has also sparked a fire that has yet to be contained, environmental activists said.

Lesotho’s King Letsie III has embarked on an ambitious mission in snowy Davos, where global powerbrokers have converged, to make a royal pitch: invest in his small African nation’s green transition.

A French woman who lost her life savings to scammers pretending to be American actor Brad Pitt is seeking to unmask at least three Nigerians her legal team accuses of defrauding her.

The big BRICS countries now have three formal partners on the continent with economies growing much faster than South Africa’s, and bigger markets in terms of population, if not available cash.

Sugar producer Tongaat Hulett Zimbabwe plans to lay off 1 000 employees by August this year, a company official said, as it seeks to cut costs and survive the country’s currency turmoil and inflationary pressures.

The instability in Mozambique may worsen when Daniel Chapo of Frelimo is inaugurated as president on Wednesday.

Authorities in northern Nigeria’s largest city have begun evacuating more than 5 000 street children seen as a “security threat” and a growing concern as an economic crisis forces more to fend for themselves.

Sub-Saharan Africa’s economic growth is expected to improve to an average 4.2% this year from an estimated 3.8% in 2024, boosted by investments in energy and infrastructure and an expanded services sector, according to Moody’s Ratings.

Nineteen hippos have died in Zimbabwe in the past three months most likely due to a lack of adequate food because of severe drought, the wildlife authority said Thursday.