Comoros President Azali Assoumani was wounded in an attack on Friday, the government said, with three other sources close to the Presidency saying he was stabbed but only slightly injured.

Botswana’s former president Ian Khama returned to his country Friday for the first time in nearly three years, as the nation gears up for October elections.

The 79th United Nations General Assembly will this month bring together world leaders against a backdrop of growing climate change challenges, high-stakes conflicts, and continuing poverty and hunger.

The next decade of the Commonwealth could be dominated by reparations for slavery and colonisation, with the organisation headed by an African secretary general.

The United States supports creating two permanent United Nations Security Council seats for African states and one seat for small island developing states.

Employees at Kenya’s main airport called off their day-long strike which had stranded thousands of passengers as scores of flights were cancelled or delayed, union leaders said on Wednesday.

The African Union has been awarded a new peace prize from Russia for what organisers said was its efforts to prevent a nuclear catastrophe or another world war.

Angola saw a big drop in both diamonds mined and the price of the stones it sold in the first half of the year, leaving officials worried.

High-tech weapons used to remotely attack civilians are fuelling the war in Sudan, and lobbyists hope the United Nations Security Council will extend an existing arms embargo on Khartoum.

The body of a senior Tanzanian opposition official abducted from a bus by armed men was found on the outskirts of Dar es Salaam with signs he had been beaten and acid had been poured on his face, his party said.

In the worst drought in southern Africa in a century, villagers in Malawi are digging for potentially poisonous wild yams to eat as their crops lie scorched in the fields.

Forty-seven inmates have escaped from a maximum security prison in Liberia’s Margibi County, a rural area east of the West African country’s capital Monrovia, the justice ministry said on Monday.

A fuel tanker exploded after colliding with a truck carrying passengers and cattle in northern Nigeria, killing at least 59 people, a rescue agency said on Monday.

From 1 October, all foreigner visitors to Zanzibar will be required to pay the equivalent of about R800 for new, mandatory insurance, no matter how good their travel insurance is.

Both sides in Sudan’s civil war have committed abuses that may amount to war crimes, and world powers need to send in peacekeepers and widen an arms embargo to protect civilians, a UN-mandated mission said on Friday.

NAIROBI, Sept 6 – A fire in a school in central Kenya has killed 17 students, a police spokeswoman said on Friday, following media reports that they had been burnt beyond recognition.

A 35-year-old security guard in Zimbabwe, Ezekiel Chiradza, was arrested on Monday on allegations that he insulted President Emmerson Mnangagwa and undermined the Zimbabwe Gold (ZWG) currency launched in April.

Zimbabwe’s state-owned railway operator has opened its network up to private players, including a unit of South Africa’s Grindrod.

China’s President Xi Jinping promises to work with African leaders, no matter how the world changes.

Thanks to a regional rotation, the next Commonwealth secretary-general is due to come from Africa, and candidates from Lesotho, Ghana, and The Gambia are all keen to get the job for the next four to eight years.

Mpox, a viral illness first identified in Africa in 1970, made headlines in 2022 when it spread across the globe for the first time. Since then, the outbreak has evolved, with multiple strains of the virus circulating in different countries.