Two Benin bronzes have been returned to a traditional palace in Nigeria, more than a century after they were pillaged by British...

Ethiopia began producing electricity for the first time from its Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) – a massive hydropower plant...

Germany's BioNTech, which together with Pfizer developed the first mRNA vaccine against the coronavirus, unveiled mobile vaccine production units housed...

Burkina Faso’s coup leader Paul-Henri Damiba has promised to deal with the mounting insecurity after being inaugurated as the country’s...

With more than 200 million speakers, Swahili, which originated in East Africa, is one of the world's 10 most widely...

France and its allies in an international force will withdraw their troops from Mali after almost a decade, President Emmanuel...

Burkina Faso military leader Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba is due to be sworn in as the country’s president, just over two...

Tanzania is looking to set up its own vaccine manufacturing plant as part of its wider plan to tackle Covid-19...

A Kenyan lawyer, Paul Gicheru, has gone on trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, accused of...

Year-long celebrations have begun in Liberia to commemorate the time when freedmen from the US first arrived there two centuries...