Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed kickstarted electricity production from the second turbine at its controversial mega-dam on the Blue Nile on Thursday, despite continuing objections by Egypt and Sudan over the project.
Nearly 900,000 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been displaced since the start of the year, the UN's humanitarian agency said Wednesday, amid rebel fighting in the country's east.
ANALYSIS - Mounting attacks from jihadists and criminal gangs, including a brazen assault close to the capital, are creating a headache for Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari as he sees out his last six months in office.
A historic drought in Somalia has now displaced one million people and left the country in the shadow of famine, the United Nations said Thursday.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said serious concerns" about human rights in Rwanda are on the discussion agenda Thursday with President Paul Kagame in Kigali.
Troops in Cameroon's Northwest Region have "summarily killed" at least 10 people in a crackdown against anglophone separatists, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Thursday.
Forty-two Malian soldiers died in an attack at the weekend by suspected jihadists, the army said Wednesday in a document naming the fatalities, revising an earlier figure of 21 dead.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken left the Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday as he embarked on the final leg of his African tour. His departure was announced by the DRC president's office.
Award-winning Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga denied charges of inciting violence at the opening of her trial in Harare on Wednesday over a protest she made in July 2020 in which she called for reform.
Nigeria has brought home around 12,000 people who fled violence in the northwest of the country earlier this year, including from neighboring Niger, an official and a returnee said Wednesday.
Outstanding claims of compensation from the massacre of 34 workers at a South African platinum mine a decade ago are likely to be settled this month, an official said on Wednesday.
Egypt detained a male student Wednesday on suspicion of murdering a female student who allegedly rejected his advances, after the second such campus femicide in two months, prosecutors said.
With monkeypox surging across the world, experts are gathering more evidence on how people catch it and its typical symptoms. Several months into the epidemic, it is clear the wave of infections is linked above all to sexual intercourse between men.
Some 750 escaped from a prison in eastern DRC after gunmen staged a jailbreak in which two policemen and three others were killed, sources said Wednesday.
Guinea's junta-appointed government has dissolved the country's leading opposition movement, the National Front for the Defense of the Constitution (FNDC), under a decree dated Saturday.
Two Algerian social media influencers were sentenced on appeal Tuesday to a year each in prison, with six months suspended, over a scam targeting students seeking education abroad, local media reported.
African football supremo Patrice Motsepe will launch in Tanzania on Wednesday a CAF Super League, with promises of a $100 million (98 million euros) prize fund for cash-strapped clubs.
Ten civilians, including four security auxiliaries, have been killed by suspected jihadists in northern Burkina Faso, a security source said on Tuesday.
At least 17 soldiers and four civilians were killed Sunday in an attack in a strategic border zone between Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, Mali's army said.
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