Africa

Italy’s ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo has been killed in an attack in the east of the country, its foreign…

Hundreds of residents in Mozambique’s Buzi District are waiting at the Guara Guara administrative post to be evacuated after their houses were…

Tanzania’s former President Benjamin William Mkapa, aged 81, has died, President John Magufuli has announced. Tanzania’s president John Pombe Magufuli through a…

Police have arrested Norman Chisale, the former bodyguard of Malawi’s ex-president Peter Mutharika, in relation to the importation of duty-free cement worth…

Kenya’s education ministry has said that all primary and secondary schools will reopen next year. The ministry said all students would resume…

The lawyer who represented Malawi’s new president Lazarus Chakwera in annulling the last election has turned down the post of justice minister,…

The worst-ever outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo has officially been declared over, almost two years after it began.…

At least 20 people have been killed in eastern Burkina Faso when gunmen stormed a cattle market, reports say. Gunmen on motorbikes…

The number of coronavirus cases remains relatively low in East Africa, but health officials note that border crossings— through which truck drivers pass daily…

Somalia is investigating how a private Kenyan plane with coronavirus medical supplies crashed near the city of Baidoa, killing all six on…