Africa will be self-sufficient in fertiliser within 40 months, Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote said on Friday, on the basis of...

A long-time ally of Cameroon's leader has quit the government to run for president in October elections - a defection...

Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo signed a U.S.-brokered peace agreement on Friday, raising hopes for an end to fighting...

South Africa's Democratic Alliance party has withdrawn from a national dialogue but stopped short of leaving the coalition government after...

Burundi is urging the United Nations to officially recognize the mass killings of Hutus in 1972–1973 as a genocide, over...

A South African court prevented Zambia's former president Edgar Lungu from being buried in Johannesburg just before the ceremony was...

On Africa's dry western tip, Mauritania has become an unlikely staging post for Ukraine's increasingly global struggle with its adversary...

Sierra Leone will wait for the results of a recently-launched offshore 3D seismic survey, its first in over a decade,...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has removed from his position as deputy trade minister a politician from the Democratic Alliance...

A United Nations peacekeeper has been killed during an attack by armed men in the Central African Republic, the UN announced...