Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud says he is a prime target of the Islamist group al-Shabab.

The Malawi Electoral Commission has so far validated results from 24 of 36 councils, which show Peter Mutharika ahead by an unassailable

The battle for Kordofan, with a population of eight million, is the latest frontline in Sudan’s civil war.

The president-elect of the southern African nation has a long and controversial political career.

They had started legal action against Ghana for agreeing to accept them from the US.

However, a high court judge said the president and his Malawi Congress Party can proceed with a judicial review of alleged irregularities

The herd was fleeing lions, officials say

Orville Isaac Etoria had been held in prison in the southern African state after Trump’s government expelled him.

Victory very unlikely for the incumbent President Lazarus Chakwera

Peter Mutharika has got about 66% of the votes counted so far, putting him ahead of President Lazarus Chakwera.

Female runners won six of Kenya’s seven gold medals at the World Athletics Championships, topping the podium in every event from 800m to the marathon in Tokyo.

The country’s high-stakes vote has been plagued by allegations of cheating, rivalry and arrests, leading to a demand for transparency

Evans Kibet, now being held in Ukraine after surrendering, says he did not know he was signing up.

Wicketkeeper Quinton de Kock reverses his retirement for one-day internationals and is recalled by South Africa.

President Duma Boko congratulates the men’s 4x400m relay team for winning gold at the World Athletic Championships.

The former president, long dismissed as yesterday’s man, has become the improbable vessel of hope for millions in the poverty-stricken country

Personnel and equipment have been airlifted from Lubumbashi and Kinshasa to Pretoria, amid tension over unpaid allowances for soldiers

Despite there being 17 candidates, the poll was dominated by incumbent Lazarus Chakwera and former president Peter Mutharika

Tanzania’s 2025 general elections campaign has taken a dramatic turn after the removal of the Alliance for Change and Transparency (ACT Wazalendo) party’s candidate — former minister and outspoken legislator Luhaga Mpina — from the presidential race.  The decision announced by the National Electoral Commission (NEC) is widely seen as strengthening President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s […]

If the Department of State Policy Provisions Act is passed into law, the US will support Zimbabwe borrowing money from international lenders such as the World Bank

HIV prevention services have been heavily affected by the pause on the US President’s Emergency Plan for Aids in the country, with remote mobile clinics that served hard-to-reach people now closed