After the shooting, the pirate ship sank and the eight pirates were brought aboard the frigate, where a seriously injured one of their number was treated.

Twelve out of 17 ministers from a bloc calling for a purely civilian government resigned on Monday, rejecting Hamdok’s strategy of engaging with the military.

Namibia has warned that more than 268 000 doses of AstraZeneca and Pfizer Covid-19 vaccines are at risk of being destroyed, some as early as next week, due to a slow uptake by citizens.

Former Barcelona striker Samuel Eto’o is cleared to stand in elections to be the next president of the Cameroon Football Federation.

The UN’s Zebib Kavuma answers some of the most frequently asked questions about gender-based violence.

For Malawian prosperity gospel preacher Shepherd Bushiri, it’s business as usual – with allegations that thousands of worshippers from all over the world visit him weekly for spiritual deliverance.

Critics take to social media to slam royal’s comments concerning pressures faced by wildlife.

Nigeria is planning to give cash handouts to the poor, that may cost the government 2.4 trillion naira a year (R96 billion) in a bid to replace fuel subsides.

With a critical mass of thousands of educated graduates and rising unemployment, amid the wide exposure to the ideas of liberal democracy, it is becoming an uphill task to maintain absolute monarchism in Eswatini, writes Hlengiwe Portia Dlamini.

If African countries are aware of the negatives of oil and gas, they also see relatively little help for switching to cleaner renewables.

Tanzania said it would allow pregnant students and teenaged mothers to continue with their studies, reversing a heavily-criticised policy instituted by its late autocratic leader John Magufuli.

Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has gone to direct the war from the front lines, state-affiliated media reported, as two Olympian athletes announced they were enlisting in the military.

How can the “voice” of African diaspora help build relations between Germany and Africa?

When popular Rwandan singer Albert Nabonibo came out as gay, he lost everything overnight: the love of his fans, friends and family. He then found sanctuary in an unexpected source: the embrace of a Kigali church.

BGFIBank allegedly played a central role in a years-long scam that allowed former DRC leader Joseph Kabila’s family and close associates to launder $243-million in public and suspect funds

Eleven out of the 15 most polluted African cities, excluding those in Nigeria, are in SA, according to a report by IQAir, a Swiss air quality technology and consultancy company

On Monday, Abiy said he would ‘mobilise to the front to lead the defence forces’ and called on Ethiopians to ‘rise up for your country.’

Among the most notable hopefuls are Seif al-Islam Kadhafi, the son of slain dictator Moamer Kadhafi, and Khalifa Haftar, leader of the self-styled Libyan National Army in control of the country’s east and parts of the south.

The youth-led protest started as a campaign to end the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) — a police unit notorious for extortion, torture and extrajudicial killings.

A lighting bolt struck and wounded 13 male prisoners while they were having lunch at a jail in northwestern Zimbabwe, an official said.

Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon and her compatriot Eliud Kipchoge as well as Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei are all on the final shortlists for the World Athlete of the Year awards.