The Coronavirus pandemic may have severely impacted the global economy with major setbacks, but that isn’t deterring musician and business mogul, Akon, from going ahead with his plans of constructing a futuristic pan-African city in his home country of Senegal.

A woman and her child are believed to have drowned after the boat they were on was swept by currents on the River Nile in Uganda towards the open spillways of a hydro-power station in the eastern district of Jinja.

Mali's ousted President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta has been admitted to a hospital in the capital Bamako, the Associated Press reports.

The Zimbabwean government has announced that schools will be reopened in two weeks for students who will sit for examinations later in the year.

The leader of Zambia’s biggest opposition party, Hakainde Hichilema, has alleged the government is plotting to kill him.

Armed militia attacked a school and raped female students on the eve of their examinations in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The Speaker of the House of Representative, Femi Gbajabiamila will be in Ghana’s capital, Accra, Wednesday, September 2, 2020 to meet with Ghana’s President, Nana Akufo-Addo and other high-ranking members of the Ghanaian government to start diplomatic talks aimed at finding a permanent solution to the continuous harassment of Nigerian traders in Ghana.

Youth channel MTV dedicated its Video Music Awards show on Sunday to Chadwick Boseman, calling the “Black Panther” star, whose death last week at age 43 shocked fans around the world, a “true hero.”

The daughter of Hotel Rwanda film hero Paul Rusesabagina, who was arrested on terror charges, has said the family hasn't heard from him.