AFPSpeculation over the wellbeing and whereabouts of Cameroon’s 91-year-old President Paul Biya has become a hot topic across Africa this week.After attending the China-Africa summit in Beijing in early...

AFPIan Khama (R) and his protégé Mokgweetsi Masisi (L) in happier times Ian Khama’s well-mannered voice barely disguises the anger that he feels.In several interviews that Botswana’s former president...

In an election that was criticised by rights groups, Tunisia’s President Kais Saied has won a second term with more than 90% of the vote, the electoral commission has...

Rwanda has said it will begin vaccine trials for the fatal Marburg virus, which has already killed at least 12 people in the country - most of them health...

AFPMozambique is set for a watershed election that will see a change of the presidential guard, with the era of leaders who forged their careers in the trenches of...

Getty ImagesPresident Mahamat Déby, the son of the previous president, was first elected in MayChad, a decades-old ally of France, is now cleverly playing off Russia and its traditional...

At least 78 people have died after a ferry capsized on Lake Kivu, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, just a few hundred metres from its destination.The boat was...

BBC / Kennedy GondweKariba Dam was built in a gorge between Zambia and Zimbabwe holding back the Zambezi River to create a man-made lake Despite having the mighty Zambezi...

EPAKenya's embattled Deputy President, Rigathi Gachagua, calls himself the “truthful man”, attributing his remarkable rise to the fact that he speaks truth to power.But as he faces impeachment proceedings,...

NBA Hall of Famer Dikembe Mutombo has died from brain cancer at the age of 58.The eight-time NBA All-Star, who retired in 2009, spent 18 years playing in the...

A zookeeper has been mauled to death by a lion in south-western Nigeria after he failed to secure the locks on its enclosure when he went to feed it,...

Seventeen people have been killed in a mass shooting in a remote South African town with a manhunt under way to find the perpetrators, police say.Two homesteads on the...