Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi met with US President Joe Biden while he was in neighbouring Angola to talk, according to the White House’s official account, about the Lobito corridor and governance.

Disgruntled Mozambicans blocked streets and key roads again on Wednesday, extending the disruption after a disputed election to 41 days and counting.

In 1986, Jonas Savimbi went to Washington looking for help to wage a guerilla war in Angola.

The Electoral Commission of Namibia announced Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah from SWAPO had won the presidential election.

US President Joe Biden met his Angolan counterpart Joao Lourenco Tuesday at the start of a two-day visit to the African country centred on a major infrastructure project that showcases US investment on the continent, where rival China is boosting its

Discussion of the pardon on Hunter Biden immediately drowned out Joe Biden’s trip to Angola, which already seemed largely irrelevant considering Donald Trump’s approach.

There can’t be a re-run of Namibia’s general election because there is no money to do so, the Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) said, even as opposition parties prepared a legal challenge demanding just that.

Namibia extended voting for a second time Thursday with the opposition crying foul after logistical failures prevented many people from casting ballots in the tightly fought election.

Just as Zimbabwe’s finance minister, Mthuli Ncube, finished presenting his 2025 fiscal budget, the Mount Hampden parliamentary building experienced a power cut.

Early results suggest Namibians found themselves divided between Swapo’s Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah and Panduleni Itula of the Independent Patriots for Change when they voted, mostly on Wednesday.

Namibians were still voting early Thursday, hours after polls were scheduled to close in a presidential and legislative election set to test the ruling party’s 34-year grip on power in the southern African nation.

Anti-government protesters and security forces clashed across Mozambique Wednesday with police reportedly killing two people and a military vehicle mowing down another at fresh demonstrations against October’s disputed elections.

Outgoing Namibian president Nangolo Mbumba commended his country on a smooth election day on Wednesday.

Tanzanian opposition party Chadema, said two of its members were killed on the eve of Wednesday’s local elections, and accused the authorities of rigging the vote.

As a wave of election upsets batters the region, the Southern African country could be next.

Zimbabwe plans to pay $331 million (R6 billion) to white former farmers whose land the nation seized in 2000 as a step toward getting creditors to agree to restructure the nation’s debt pile.

Almost a million of the registered voters for Namibia’s general elections on Wednesday are below the age of 42, and there are more women than men registered to vote, according to the Namibian Electoral Commission.

Mozambican opposition leader Venancio Mondlane has tabled a list of demands ahead of a proposed meeting with other presidential candidates called by President Filipe Nyusi – which he will not be attending in person.

The arrest of a Ugandan opposition figure in Kenya was carried out with Nairobi’s knowledge, a Ugandan government spokesperson told AFP Friday.

A Zimbabwe court ruled Friday that opposition leader Jameson Timba and 34 people in prison since their arrest at his home more than five months ago were guilty of unlawful gathering.

Will Namibia be the next country in southern Africa to kick out a political party in power since independence?