The Democratic Republic of Congo government has recalled all civil servants working for former president Joseph Kabila, effectively stripping him of state security and supporting staff.

BBC Africa is suspended for two weeks for covering a Human Rights Watch report on alleged mass killings.

South Africa’s former president hits out at corruption within the governing party.

The policing minister appeared to ask an audience member if Rwanda and Congo were different countries.

Three more African countries have joined a rollout of malaria vaccines targeting millions of children in a continent that accounts for 95 percent of malaria deaths, the UN said Thursday.

Tanzania on Thursday dismissed as “unfounded” allegations of killings, reape rights abuses and the planned evictions of over 20 000 people that led the World Bank to suspend funding for a $150 million conservation project.

Burkina Faso’s military in February summarily executed about 223 villagers, including at least 56 children, as part of a campaign against civilians accused of collaborating with jihadist militants, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said.

The prime minister warns that El Niño-triggered heavy rains are likely to continue into May.

The US and France maintained bases in Niger in order to combat jihadist organisations in the region.

East Africa is being pounded by unusually heavy rains linked to a combination of global weather events.

At least 118 inmates escaped from prison after heavy rains on Wednesday night damaged the facility in Sujela near the Nigerian capital, a prison service spokesperson said.

A manhunt is launched after more than 100 inmates escape the colonial-era facility near Abuja.

Soldiers accused residents of aiding Islamist fighters before shooting at them, an investigation shows.

Two of Africa’s hotspots had massive increases in their military budgets in 2023, new numbers show.

The UN says that at least 32 people have died and more than 40,000 have been forced from their homes.

Allowing independent candidates to contest the next general election in South Africa is a boon for democracy. Prof. Colin Thakur asks if it is time to move to an electronic voting system?

The World Bank said on Tuesday it has suspended funding for a tourism and conservation project in Tanzania following allegations of human rights abuses.

The Rwandan government says it is safe and ready to receive deportees from Britain, and the passage of the fraught Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill is testament to that.

It follows allegations of evictions and other rights abuses during the expansion of a national park.

Facing a “worrying proliferation” of attack dogs, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) President Felix Tshisekedi has called for government control over the ownership of certain breeds, including pit bulls and boerboels.