Burundi's newly elected president Evariste Ndayishimiye will be sworn in on Thursday, after the sudden death of his predecessor who left him an isolated nation in political and economic turmoil.

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced further easing of coronavirus restrictions.

Ghana’s economy expanded 4.9 per cent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2020 compared to 6.7 per cent in the same period last year, driven mainly by the services sector, the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) said on Wednesday

Music artiste, Oladapo Oyebanjo aka D’Banj, has demanded N100m from Miss Seyitan Babatayo who accused him of raping her in a hotel room on December 30, 2018.

Central banks in East Africa have been cutting interest rates to encourage businesses to borrow, but the strategy is not working.

The Kenyan authorities are investigating the disappearance of medical equipment donated to help stop the spread of COVID- 19.

Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, the Rivers State Governor in Port Harcourt Nigeria, has said the Real Madrid Academy program in Port Harcourt will commence fresh academic session in September 2020.

A judge who was said to have died of a heart attack while overseeing a corruption trial involving the president's chief of staff in the Democratic Republic of Congo actually died of stab wounds to the head, the justice minister has revealed.

Senior African leaders in the United Nations have expressed commitment to act decisively to help end systemic racism against people of African descent and other minority groups.