Armed groups allied with the Sudanese army said on Wednesday that they had recaptured the Orshi Reservoir area in North Darfur state from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) following clashes.
Chadian President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno announced on Wednesday that Chad will abolish entry visas for all African nationals effective January 1, 2027.
The Trump administration is blocking American citizens in DRC from travelling to the US on commercial flights.
Kizza Besigye, in jail since late 2024, was told he had two weeks to accept the state-approved lawyers.
One person was killed in the blazes as authorities restored electricity to 16 provinces following a heat-triggered outage, with temperatures expected to reach as high as 49C through Friday.
The federal government has pressed charges against Adeniyi Adeyemi, whom it accuses of running the "fictitious" Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC).
More than 70% of the returnees are women and children, with the number of Zimbabweans requiring repatriation continuing to rise, the information minister said.
Former president Ernest Bai Koroma faced charges for his alleged role in what authorities called an attempted 2023 coup.
Researchers in DRC said on Tuesday they have started enrolling participants in a trial testing Gilead Sciences' experimental antiviral obeldesivir as a post-exposure treatment for the ongoing Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak.
Cameroon's main port of Douala has resumed operations, its transport minister said on Tuesday.
Military says special operations units backed the offensive, which came days after it announced the recapture of the strategic border town of Al-Kurmuk
Andile Somgxada, who led the group in Gauteng, was shot while leaving his home early this month and succumbed to his wounds, according to media reports.
The European Union has introduced new sanctions targeting Sudan’s gold trade and restricting access to chemicals used in gold mining.
South Africa says it is processing the extradition of a British national of Zimbabwean heritage suspected of murdering his wife and two daughters in early July 2026.
Nigeria's First Lady Oluremi Tinubu has urged the country's leading musicians Burna Boy, Davido, and Asake to allocate part of their wealth toward helping the poor.
One dog is at large while two dogs have been humanely euthanised.
The proposed policy aims to make it mandatory for all licensed wholesalers and importers to hold at least 21 days' worth of stocks.
Troops also recovered ammunition, military-style uniforms and other equipment during follow-up operations.
For more than a month, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been targeting the region's main power station, fuel facilities and other civilian sites.
Mali's army chief said around 30 soldiers had been killed in recent fighting to retake the key northern town of Anefis from Al Qaeda-linked terrorists and Tuareg separatists.
A Sudanese court has sentenced paramilitary leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo and 15 others to death in absentia over the killing of a regional governor and committing war crimes in Darfur.
Dozens of Boko Haram terrorists were killed on Saturday in a Nigerian airstrike targeting the group's positions in the northeastern state of Borno.
UNICEF says ''intensified fighting'' in El-Obeid is forcing families out of their homes.
The commemoration marks the 110th anniversary of the Battle of Delville Wood in Longueval, northern France, where several hundred South Africans were killed.
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