Nigeria’s four-time African champion Anuoluwapo Opeyori, coached by his brother, hopes to break new ground for the continent in Paris.

In two different African countries, journalists came under direct attack this week.

Heparin can neutralise the necrosis-causing toxins in some spitting cobras’ venom, scientists discover.

Egypt will halt load shedding power cuts during the summer as of Sunday, after some natural gas shipments arrived, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly said on Wednesday, in a bid to end a crisis that inconvenienced a population of 106 million.

One of those being held in the bush was on HIV medication and had not taken his drugs for two weeks.

Rwanda’s long-time president drew another record-breaking share of the vote, but his parliamentarians fared a lot worse.

Anuoluwapo Juwon Opeyori grew up in Lagos, with little access to badminton facilities – now he’s a four-time African champion.

Macharia Gaitho, known for his articles criticising the government, says he will sue over the ordeal.

The barefoot African runner who made history at the Games and inspired a generation.

The strike could disrupt a landmark trial over a 2009 massacre.

Police said the 33-year-old confessed to having killed 42 women since 2022 after his arrest on Monday.

The body of Burundi’s former president Pierre Buyoya was repatriated to his home country on Tuesday, more than three years after he was buried thousands of kilometres away in Mali.

The first doses of the vaccine were rolled out in the Ivory Coast on Monday.

Anti-government demonstrators step up demands for President William Ruto to resign.

When Bobby Locke coined his immortal phrase, ‘drive for show, putt for dough’, it was just another flag the great South African planted in the story of golf.

Tanzania is banking on its natural resources during the global transition to clean energy, but analysts warn there are dangers ahead

With 65 percent of the population aged under 30, Kagame is the only leader most Rwandans have ever known

Kenyan police said they arrested a suspected serial killer who confessed to murdering 42 women, including his wife, and discarding their dismembered bodies in a Nairobi rubbish dump.

The Gambian legislature has upheld its ban on female genital mutilation, despite heavy lobbying from conservative and religious groups.

A court in Eswatini sentenced two pro-democracy lawmakers to 25 and 18 years in jail on Monday for “terrorism” and murder related to 2021 protests in Africa’s last absolute monarchy.

Paul Kagame is expected to win another term in office by a comfortable margin.