Election observer missions deployed in Mozambique say the 10 October polls were generally peaceful, and have urged Mozambicans to remain calm as results trickle in.

With game-changer drugs coming out, US technocrats want to secure five-year funding for the hugely successful Pepfar programme – before 21 years of gains are reversed.

Medical charity MSF says it has been forced to suspend work in the vast camp for displaced people where famine has been confirmed in Sudan’s North Darfur region, putting thousands of malnourished children at risk of death.

Police in Zimbabwe are hunting for seven alleged bank robbers, who are believed to be in South Africa.

Cameroon’s government has banned the media from discussing the health of President Paul Biya, Africa’s second-longest-ruling leader, amid rumours the 91-year-old is gravely ill, according to a document obtained by AFP.

US President Joe Biden may have postponed his scheduled visit to Angola, but the country is still feeling extra pressure related to detained critics of the government and human rights violations thanks to the attention of the White House.

Fuel prices shot up at pumps across Nigeria on Wednesday, dealing another blow to Nigerians already suffering the worst economic crisis in a generation.

Kenya’s parliament voted on Tuesday to impeach Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua on charges including enriching himself and stirring ethnic hatred, the chamber’s speaker said, paving the way for the senate to consider the motion.

A record 17 million Mozambicans are expected to vote on Wednesday in general elections that have seen a relatively violence-free campaign.

The increasingly bitterly opposed presidents of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo posed for the same group picture over the weekend.

South Africa will use its permanent seat in the G20, which it will chair next year, to push for an African agenda centred on ending conflicts, climate change mitigation, and reparations, it has vowed.

Observers from the Southern African Development Community, led by Dr Amani Abeid Karume, the former president of Zanzibar, arrived in Mozambique early this week ahead of the 9 October poll.

The International Criminal Court Friday made public arrest warrants for six Libyans suspected of being part of a murderous gang that brutalised the town of Tarhuna in the war-torn country.

Former Zambian president Edgar Lungu is accusing his successor Hakainde Hichilema of running down the economy and using lawfare to block him from challenging for the top job again in 2026.

The latest approach to the ZiG currency supposedly backed by physical gold – which hit an all-time high price last week – has further confused consumers, and the broader market.

The widow of Saulos Chilima wants an independent investigation into the military aircraft crash in June that killed the former Malawian vice-president and nine others.

Rwanda’s Kwita Izina ceremony will give 22 baby gorillas their names on 18 October, as the population of the once critically endangered apes continues to grow.

Zimbabwe’s gold-backed currency, which was devalued by 43% by the central bank on Friday, remained under pressure on Monday.