The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating in Africa, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.

Zimbabwe’s National Security Council (NSC) has rejected media reports of an impending coup.

Burundi began an official period of mourning for President Pierre Nkurunziza on Wednesday, a day after the announcement of his death from a heart attack aged 55 shocked the impoverished East African nation he had ruled with an iron grip.

An increased number of Nigerian children are in the labour force right now because schools have closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Experts monitoring child labour in the country say since the pandemic shutdown, more children are working as hawkers, cleaners or on city streets begging to earn money to help their families.

Nigerian police say they have arrested a man after 40 people were raped in one town over the period of a year.

Denise Nkurunziza, the widow of Burundi’s late president, returned home from receiving medical treatment in Kenya hours after the announcement of her husband’s death, the BBC has learnt.

The Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, is set to benefit from European Union funding in its efforts to combat COVID-19 pandemic.

n our series of letters from African journalists, Joseph Warungu captures the frustrations of Kenyans who have been pleading with the government to ease the measures taken to curb the spread of Covid-19.

Ivorian Defense minister Hamed Bakayoko has strongly denied allegations of being a drug trafficker. A Canadian website Vice has been publishing a series of articles suggesting that he was a “major cocaine trafficker.”