A Catholic priest seized last week in northwestern Nigeria was killed by his abductors while another kidnapped priest escaped, a Christian leader said Wednesday.
South Africa's police watchdog said Tuesday it arrested 13 officers over the death of a man in custody, the first major breakthrough in several cases of alleged brutality during the Covid lockdown.
Jihadist rebels last week blew up two bridges in northern Burkina Faso in a bid to isolate key towns in the region, the army said on Tuesday.
A Moroccan court Tuesday sentenced 33 migrants to 11 months in jail for "illegal entry", their lawyer said, after a deadly mass border-crossing attempt into the Spanish enclave of Melilla last month.
The high stakes court battle between Elon Musk and Twitter kicked off on Tuesday, as the social media firm tries to force the entrepreneur to honor their $44 billion buyout deal.
Two Al-Shabaab militants were reportedly killed in an airstrike on Sunday in a remote region of southern Somalia, according to the US military command for Africa (AFRICOM).
Democratic Republic of Congo will offer 27 oil blocks and three gas blocks, nearly double as many as previously planned, in a licensing round next week, the hydrocarbons ministry said on Monday.
The leader of Tunisia's Islamist-inspired opposition party Ennahdha arrived Tuesday for questioning by an investigating judge at an anti-terror centre, just days before a hotly contested constitutional referendum.
The deaths of 21 young people at a South African tavern more than three weeks ago remains a mystery as a preliminary toxicology report was inconclusive, provincial authorities said Tuesday.
Authorities in northwest Nigeria's Zamfara state have suspended a traditional chief after he conferred a royal title on a notorious gang leader wanted for deadly raids and kidnappings.
Thousands of Sudan's Hausa people protested in several cities Tuesday, demanding justice for comrades killed in a deadly land dispute with a rival ethnic group in the country's south.
Tunisia's coastguard said Monday it had rescued 455 migrants the night before during operations to combat irregular migration off the country's coasts.
Delegates from across Africa launched Monday in Rwanda the first continent-wide gathering about the role of protected areas in ensuring the future of our planet.
In an interview with AFP on Monday, Deputy President William Ruto considered himself the front-runner in the Kenyan presidential election on August 9, citing that the east African nation is a democracy with free and fair elections.
A mysterious disease that killed three people in Tanzania has been identified as leptospirosis or "rat fever", a bacterial infection commonly spread by the rodents, the East African nation's government said Monday.
Thousands of Sudan's Hausa people set up barricades and attacked government buildings in several cities Monday, witnesses said, after a week of deadly tribal clashes in the country's south.
Six lions were euthanized after escaping from a South African game reserve and terrorizing people living nearby, wildlife authorities said on Monday.
Allied ex-rebels who signed a peace deal with Mali's government in 2015 have voiced alarm at what they call the pact's "abandonment" by the junta-led government installed after a coup nearly two years ago.
British MPs on Monday told the government there was "no clear evidence" that its controversial policy to deport some asylum seekers to Rwanda would stop Channel crossings in small boats.
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell warned Monday that Russia's blockade of Ukrainian ports threatens grain supplies to tens of thousands of people vulnerable to starvation and must end.
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