Zimbabwe’s parliament has voted to abolish the death penalty, as the BBC's Shingai Nyoka..
Police in Ghana have arrested more than 100 people - mostly opposition supporters of..
Burkina Faso's military ruler Capt Ibrahim Traoré has sacked his Prime Minister Apollinaire Joachim..
Ghana's Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia has accepted defeat in Saturday's election and congratulated the opposition..
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, from the governing South West Africa People's Organisation (Swapo), has been voted..
Chad has said it is terminating a key defence cooperation agreement with France, raising..
President Cyril Ramaphosa will on Monday, 2 December 2024, brief the media on South..
A fugitive Zambian lawmaker with a bounty on his head has been arrested in..
Kenya’s Catholic Church has rejected a donation of about $40,000 (£32,000) made by President..
Mozambique's government has banned protests following sustained post-election unrest that has left several people..
The prime minister of Mauritius has accepted that his coalition, L'Alliance Lepep, has suffered..
Civil servants caught having sex in their offices will face "severe measures", the vice-president..
Zimbabwe's government has banned "with immediate effect" police officers from using mobile phones while..
Nigeria's president has ordered the immediate release of a group of young people accused..
A lighting strike at a refugee camp in Uganda has killed 13 children and..
Nigerian MP Alex Ikwechegh has apologised after a video went viral of him slapping..
Prominent Kenyan human rights activist Boniface Mwangi has been released without charge after being..
Cameroon’s 91-year-old President Paul Biya has been seen in public for the first time..