The law will now make sure that the rights of the LGBTQI community in Angola are protected at all times.

Nzambi Matee, 29, and her team recycle plastic bottle tops, bags, and cooking oil containers into bricks.

Washington has given its support to Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for the top position at the WTO, ending a month long deadlock. The move represents yet another split with the previous administration.

A full list of the continent’s dollar billionaires has revealed who the ‘richest Africans’ are: Five of them come from Mzansi – but a Nigerian tops the log.

The Bank said it’s preparing emergency vaccine financing projects in 21 countries in Africa, urging states to avail of the funds.

High-level talks and coordinating SADC guidelines on the coronavirus pandemic should have been used to prevent the border crises, the Pretoria-based Institute for Security Studies (ISS) said.

The AU has so far secured 270 million vaccine shots.

In light of the chain of events in the Uganda elections, there are concerns surrounding opposition leader Bobi Wine’s safety, amid claims of victimisation at the hands of the Yoweri Museveni regime

Chairperson of the African Union (AU) President Cyril Ramaphosa said efforts to secure a COVID-19 vaccine for the continent were always collaborative

The EFF has taken aim at Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni after he ordered a ban on social media, a day before elections

In 2000, the Zimbabwean agricultural sector took a hammering as a result of the land reform programme spearheaded by then President Robert Mugabe, and left an approximated 4 000 farmers homeless.

UNICEF said some 2.3 million minors are struggling to access treatment for malnourishment, critical vaccines, emergency medicines, water and sanitation.

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Expert, John Campbell, believes the upsurge in student abductions in northwestern Nigeria reflect the growing strength of criminal gangs, often acting in concert with Boko Haram, and the weakness of the federal government.

South Africa’s Department of Home Affairs said the congestion at the Beitbridge Border Post with Zimbabwe has been cleared and traffic flow has returned to normal.

Leaders from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) are set to meet in January to agree on a plan to prevent the conflict from spilling across Mozambique’s borders.

Nigeria had the lowest infection rate in Africa, until this week when a surge in new COVID-19 cases was noted.

This is not a crisis that one country can solve alone, the Institute of Security Studies (ISS) says.

The deal was that if the pub owner was successful, the customers watching would would foot the resultant bill.

The Eswatini Kingdom has confirmed the passing of its Prime Minister Ambrose Dlamini, who died two weeks after being transferred to a South African hospital for COVID-19 treatment

A man named after Adolf Hitler says he has no plans for world domination after winning a sweeping victory in local elections in Namibia.

the head of Zimbabwe Miners Federation said the number of those trapped underground could be higher because informal miners do not keep a tally of people operating in the mines they occupy.

South Africa is set to conclude its one-year tenure as African Union (AU) chair at the next summit in February 2021. Like for many, its plans for the AU were largely derailed by COVID-19.

Amnesty International reported on Thursday that scores, possibly hundreds, of civilians were massacred with knives and machetes in a town south of Humera last week.

At least 11 000 Ethiopians fleeing conflict in the Tigray region have crossed into neighbouring Sudan, a Sudanese official said Wednesday.

Ethiopia is the second-most populous country in Africa with 110 million people, and by far the most important power in the Horn of Africa.