Namibia's authorities have warned people not to hold parties at cemeteries after a social gathering at a gravesite in the capital, Windhoek, sparked outrage last weekend.According to City of...

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been sentenced to five years in jail after being found guilty of criminal conspiracy in a case related to millions of euros of...

A new HIV prevention drug will be made available at a lower cost in over 100 low-income countries within two years — a move expected to give millions access...

A Jamaican man deported from the US to Eswatini under President Donald Trump's tough new immigration rules has been sent on to Jamaica, the Eswatini government has said.Orville Isaac...

Kenya is toasting a golden generation of female track stars after they led the nation to second place in the medal table behind the United States at the 2025...

Megha MohanBBC World Service Gender and Identity correspondentWanjiru FamilyAgnes Wanjiru, who was 21 when she was killed, had just recently become a motherMore than a decade after Agnes Wanjiru,...

Kenya's Beatrice Chebet wins gold in the women's 5000m with team-mate Faith Kipyegon claiming silver and Italy's Nadia Battocletti takes bronze at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.FOLLOW LIVE:...

A South African hospital cleaner has been arrested after being found in possession of a bag of human placentas in eastern Mpumalanga province, police say. Rose Mnisi was allegedly...

A former defence minister and vocal critic of Togo's government, Marguerite Gnakadé, has been arrested, according to security sources. Gnakadé, the sister-in-law of long-serving leader Faure Gnassingbé, recently called...

Collins NabiswaBBC Monitoring,Abdou Aziz DiédhiouBBC Afrique,Natasha Booty andChris EwokorBBC AfricaGetty ImagesUntil recently Islamists in Mali had been more active in the north and centreMali's military government has sought to...

A Kenyan High Court has issued an arrest warrant for a British national suspected of murdering a 21-year-old woman more than a decade ago.Agnes Wanjiru was killed in March...

Nomsa MasekoBBC Africa, Lilongwe and MangochiBBCThe queue to get fuel rather than the queue to vote is what is on the mind of many Malawians as Tuesday's general election...