Zimbabwe police on Tuesday fired teargas to disperse hundreds of students rallying in support of their unpaid lecturers, witnesses said.

Senegal's President Macky Sall vowed Tuesday to appeal personally to Democratic Republic of Congo leader Joseph Kabila for the release of Senegalese activists arrested in Kinshasa.

A week before Botswana hosts two key wildlife conservation conferences, a small group of lawmakers are seeking a review of a 2014 commercial hunting ban designed to reverse a decline in wildlife.

Mr. Rwasa accused the government of attempting to assassinate his wife. It has not commented on the allegation.

“Race is still a powerful trigger in South Africa,” he said, citing alleged racist commentary on social media. The African National Congress said last week that the Democratic Alliance protected “white privilege” and had sought to institute discriminatory policies reminiscent of apartheid. President Jacob Zuma recently said South Africa had defeated “the demon of institutionalized racism and apartheid.”

THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is to upgrade the facilities at its academy in Karu, near Abuja to be able to train anti-graft agencies for member nations of Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).. According to its chairman, Ibrahim Lamorde, doing this will help to fight corruption and related transnational crimes that…

Somalia's Shebab militants have killed one man and wounded three others in a shooting in the northern Kenyan town of Mandera, officials said Monday.

A THREE-DAY capacity building workshop for African journalists opened yesterday in Nairobi, Kenya, towards building their capacity in reporting the continent’s relationship with the emerging powers from the Global South, particularly China.

FOLLOWING the successful recovery of Madagali and other remaining territories in Adamawa State from the Islamist terrorist group, Boko Haram, the Minister of Youth Development, Boni Haruna, has commended the Nigerian military for demonstrating “uncommon patriotism and courage.”

Eight Ivory Coast soldiers will face a court martial on Monday charged with the murder of seven women demonstrators during post-electoral conflict in 2011, the military prosecutor said.

Global political and business leaders gathered in an Egyptian resort town on Friday for a three-day conference President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi hopes will bolster both foreign investment and his international standing.

US conglomerate General Electric on Friday said it will set up a new training and manufacturing facility in the Egyptian canal city of Suez in an investment worth $200 million.