Egypt, Algeria and Tunisia has called for accelerating the holding of simultaneous presidential and parliamentary elections in Libya following a ministerial meeting in Cairo on Thursday.
Nigeria's nearly two dozen political parties begin holding their presidential primaries starting from Saturday to choose their candidates for national elections in January 2027.
The India–Africa Forum Summit had been scheduled to take place next week but new dates would be set later.
Uganda's health ministry said it not aware of where the treatment centres may have been set up within the country.
Nigeria's anti-drugs agency said on Wednesday it had uncovered what it described as the country's largest-ever industrial-scale meth lab.
Nine migrants deported from the United States have landed in Sierra Leone, the West African country's ministry of information said on Wednesday.
Hundreds of foreign nationals gathered outside a community centre in Durban on Wednesday, seeking refuge after fleeing their homes following alleged attacks by anti-immigrant groups.
South Africa's state-owned power utility Eskom is in exploratory talks with international lenders to help fund a new multi-billion-dollar nuclear build programme.
Sierra Leone is the latest African country that has struck similar deals with Washington and will receive $1.5 million funding to support the arrangement
At least seven Nigerian soldiers were killed last weekend in an ambush by suspected terrorists in the northwest near the border with Niger.
Nigeria's anti-graft agency has arrested former Power Minister Saleh Mamman, days after a court sentenced him in absentia to 75 years in prison for laundering 33.8 billion naira ($24.65 million).
The strike by public transport operators has been suspended for a week after two days of protests that left four people dead.
Kenya has hiked petrol prices by 20 percent and diesel by almost 50 percent since Iran choked off traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.
Sudanese paramilitary commander al-Fateh Abdullah Idris, known as Abu Lulu, was released from prison and returned to active duty on the battlefield, Reuters reports.
The US has announced that it is bolstering precautions to prevent the spread of Ebola, including screening air travellers from outbreak-hit areas and temporarily suspending visa services from the region.
South Sudanese President Salva Kiir Mayardit on Monday inaugurated the country’s first fully operational independent air traffic management system, marking a major step in South Sudan’s assertion of sovereignty.
Police in Kenya have arrested a female suspect accused of defrauding an American national out of $431,000 under the pretext that she could supply 400 kilogrammes of genuine gold bars.
Uganda's outgoing Parliamentary Speaker Anita Among is under heavy scrutiny and investigation into alleged corruption and money laundering.
Egyptian authorities recovered the bodies of 17 irregular migrants washed ashore on the beaches of western Egypt, local media reported on Saturday.
Nigeria's police said on Saturday terrorists killed 17 officers last week in a raid at a special training centre in the country's northeast.
Felicien Kabuga, a Rwandan suspect charged in connection with the 1994 genocide, has died in a hospital while in custody in The Hague, Netherlands, a UN court said on Saturday.
Botswana on Saturday held a state funeral in honour of its late third president, Festus Mogae, who died at the age of 86 on May 8.
Sierra Leone has agreed to take in hundreds of West African migrants who are being deported by the United States.
Abu-Bilal al-Minuki was killed in a joint Nigeria-US operation around the Lake Chad basin.
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