The Central African Republic’s government has signed peace deals with two of the five groups in the country’s most powerful armed rebel movement, officials said Friday.

Threatened by armed conflict, volcanic activity and rampant deforestation, Africa’s oldest national park is turning to chocolate gorillas to raise its profile and boost conservation.

The Congolese government and opposing rebel movements have agreed to a ceasefire. It comes at a time when tensions have reached a boiling point following reports that former President Joseph Kabila had returned to the DRC.

Lecturers from the University of Zimbabwe in Harare, embarked on a strike on Thursday with a street demonstration outside the institution to demand better salaries and working conditions.

How mishandling of land reform evicted many white farmers, ‘enriched elites’ and left black Zimbabweans in poverty.

South Sudan’s opposition accused government forces of attacking one of its military positions near the capital on Tuesday as a fragile power-sharing agreement unravelled further.

Zimbabwe’s indefinite national shutdown due to start after the Easter weekend – called for by war veterans leader Blessed Geza – failed to take off on Tuesday.

African nations have enjoyed duty-free access to the US market for over two decades under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), up for renewal in September. How prepared are they should Trump refuse to sign it?

Zimbabweans may have an extended Easter holiday as war veterans leader and expelled Zanu-PF member Blessed Geza called for another national shutdown to force President Emmerson Mnangagwa to step down.

A South African luxury train carrying foreign tourists to Zimbabwe for Easter collided with another locomotive on Friday, derailing carriages and injuring several people on board, the operating company and a local rail employee have said.

Just a week after Zimbabwe police crushed protests by citizens demanding that President Emmerson Mnangagwa step down, police on Wednesday crushed another street demonstration by university lecturers and arrested the organisers.

Sudan entered its third year of war on Tuesday, with no sign of respite for war-weary civilians.

Behind a dimly lit bar in Malawi’s capital, Ben Manda rubbed his tired eyes and poured a customer a drink. He had been working for 36 hours straight, packing in back-to-back shifts to feed his family of four.

Diplomats and aid officials are seeking a way to end the violence and suffering in what is considered the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. But no one representing Sudan will be present at the talks.

Coup leader Brice Oligui Nguema topped the presidential vote with over 90% of the vote, the Interior Ministry said. The military junta has been in power since earlier presidential elections prompted the coup.

Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed the controversial Private Voluntary Organisations Amendment Bill into law on Friday.

The Zimbabwean government has started dishing out land to members of parliament just a week after war veteran leader Blessed Geza called for the impeachment of President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

Sudan told the International Court of Justice on Thursday that the United Arab Emirates was violating the Genocide Convention by supporting paramilitary forces in Darfur, but the UAE argued the case should be thrown out as the

Zimbabwe issued treasury bonds worth R6.1 billion and made small cash payments to white farmers who were dispossessed of their property 25 years ago under a state-backed land reform program.

US President Donald Trump’s sweeping new tariffs on African exports are triggering economic fallout across the continent.

Rwandan President Paul Kagame said on Monday that countries sanctioning Kigali could “go to hell”, weeks after some nations imposed the measures over Rwanda’s involvement in the eastern DR Congo conflict.