Uganda’s military chief, the son of President Yoweri Museveni, says he is holding an opposition activist in his basement and has threatened violence against him, after the man’s party said he was abducted by armed men last week.

Governors in northeastern Nigeria have called for measures to tackle the roots of a 16-year-long Islamic militant insurgency. A recent uptick in violence has sparked calls for action.

A Kenyan lawmaker was shot dead on Wednesday night in the capital Nairobi by gunmen on motorcycles.

US President Donald Trump’s senior Africa adviser met with Congolese and Rwandan representatives in Doha on Wednesday, the envoy said, after the two sides agreed to negotiate an end to the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s east.

The top job at the African Development Bank is up for grabs, with the election slated for 29 May. Five candidates vying to lead the bank have been sharing their visions for the next five years.

MTN Nigeria, the mobile operator’s biggest market, returned to profit in its first quarter to end March, benefiting from relatively stable naira as well as the first upward adjustment to mobile tariffs in the country for over a decade.

Southern African troops have started evacuating the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where they had been stranded since a January offensive by the M23 armed group.

Tanzania has lifted a ban on the import of SA’s agricultural products until further notice after acknowledging Pretoria’s willingness to resolve trade issues.

Another discovery off the coast of Namibia has spurred industry optimism that the southern African nation can develop into an exciting new oil province.

Jihadists have killed at least 14 farmers in a raid on farmlands in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state, with a local official warning that the toll may rise.

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.