A distraught father in Nigeria’s commercial capital, Lagos, is calling on the authorities to help search for his four-year-old daughter who was swept away in recent flash flooding.

A post has been circulating falsely claiming that 2018 Nobel laureate Dr Dénis Mukwege resigned from COVID-19 response teams in DR Congo because he had been ordered to declare illnesses and deaths to be coronavirus-related even when they were not.

Officials in Kenya say that there has been a significant rise in teenage pregnancies, especially since the start of Covid-19 restrictions in March.

Napoli held their nerve to claim a first major trophy in six seasons by beating Juventus 4-2 in a penalty shootout in the Coppa Italia final.

China will cancel interest-free loans to African countries that are due to mature by the end of 2020, President Xi Jinping has announced.

Four policemen in Mozambique have been given jail terms of more than 20 years each for murdering an election observer ahead of last October's election.

The landslide occurred on the northern outskirts of Abidjan, where some neighbourhoods saw more than three times as much rain between June 12 and 15 than is usual, according to Ivory Coast’s weather service.

A United Nations report obtained by the French news agency outlines undeclared military aid to the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Eight men have been arrested in South Africa, accused of involvement in one of the country's most notorious corruption scandals – the looting and eventual collapse of VBS, a provincial bank that served poor communities.