Zimbabwe declared drought a national disaster on Wednesday, with President Emmerson Mnangagwa saying the country needed $2 billion in aid to help millions of people who are going hungry.

The speaker has been accused of soliciting bribes during her time as defence minister, which she denies.

The SADC mission shows how difficult and costly it is to launch and run a large scale military operation, especially if the host government is not taking full ownership and supporting the operation

Cameroon’s football federation expresses its “great astonishment” after the country’s sports ministry appoints Marc Brys.

Senegal’s Bassirou Diomaye Faye, 44, officially became Senegal’s president on Tuesday – and immediately promised to unite the continent and put his country back on the right track.

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was sworn in Tuesday for his third term as leader of the Arab world’s most populous nation.

More than 80 political parties and civil groups in Mali joined together to issue statements calling for a presidential election “as soon as possible” ending transitional military rule.

#KeepBulawayoClean is a one-man, non-political initiative.

Largely Christian Kenya has struggled to regulate unscrupulous churches and cults

The country’s the last major constitutional change was in 1992

The incoming head of state has promised the country profound change and left-wing pan-Africanism

Without online remittances, soaring prices and cereal production cuts, Sudan is in the middle of a humanitarian disaster.

In the first three months of this year, about 190 schools have been closed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s North Kivu province.

Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio delivered the annual lecture in African Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, in the US, this week.

In December, prisoners at the Maseru Correctional Centre Institution (MCCI) were beaten up when warders intentionally created a confrontation – then went to work with knobkerries and sjamboks.

Since the start of the year, Africa has recorded 44 disease outbreaks, contributing to 104 active epidemic emergencies on the continent, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has reported.

Kenyan authorities on Tuesday began releasing the bodies of victims of a doomsday starvation cult to distraught relatives, almost a year since the discovery of mass graves in a grisly case that shocked the world.

Outgoing Senegalese president Macky Sall says the just-ended polls won by the opposition’s Bassirou Diomaye Faye were a victory for democracy.

At the age of 44, Bassirou Diomaye Faye is to become Senegal’s fifth and also youngest president after the opposition candidate’s main rival Amadou Ba conceded defeat after Sunday’s first round vote.

The United States Africa Command is concerned that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the Houthis attacks in the Red Sea “directly impact the lives of millions of Africans”, its head, General Michael Langley, told a committee of the US House of Representatives.

Africa’s largest mobile operator MTN has kept its final dividend for 2023 steady despite a hefty hit from currency volatility in Nigeria.