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Separatist rebels in Senegal’s southern Casamance region have released seven soldiers who they captured last month. The soldiers were captured on January 24 during a clash with the MFDC separatists, in which four other soldiers were…

France has said that "conditions are no longer in place" to continue the fight against Islamist militants in Mali. President Emmanuel Macron has asked to reorganise French troops in the Sahel region. French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves…

The trial of a Kenyan lawyer accused of bribing prosecution witnesses of the International Criminal Court is due to begin in The Hague. Paul Gicheru faces charges of "hindering the administration of justice by 'corruptly influencing'…

The European Union and the Gates Foundation are set to announce financial support for nascent efforts to set up an African medicines regulator to boost the continent's drugs and vaccine production, a person familiar with the matter told…

The velodrome in Kinshasa's Kintambo neigbourhood rang out with howls of disbelief on Friday, as thousands gathered to say farewell to the 25 people killed when a high-voltage power cable snapped last week in Democratic Republic of Congo's…

Deputy U.N. Secretary-general, Amina Mohammed said on Friday she was deeply shaken by accounts of rape from Ethiopian women, which she described as "your worst nightmare.” Speaking to reporters in New York a day after returning from…

Enatha Cyuzuzo is one of very few women site engineers in Rwanda’s booming construction sector. At only 26, you will find her on sites supervising the men and women she employs, some far older than herself. As a civil engineer, she…

Tanzania has lifted a ban on four newspapers 'Critical of Magufuli.' Not fewer than Four media licences were suspended when the late President John Magufuli was in power. The four - Mwanahalisi, Mawio, Mseto and Tanzania Daima - had…

Uganda says it is “unfair and wrong” that the International Court of Justice, ICJ, wants it to pay $325m, £240m, in reparations to the Democratic Republic of Congo for invading and Ituri province between 1998 and 2003. The UN court found…

Democratic Republic of Congo's President Félix Tshisekedi has appointed a new security adviser. It follows the "arrest on Saturday of his former adviser François Beya for his alleged role in a coup plot." The new adviser, Jean-Cluade…