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Botswana capital on lockdown as COVID-19 cases surge

Botswana’s capital city Gaborone was placed on a total lockdown on Friday following an increase in the number of COVID-19

Governors across Nigeria have declared a state of emergency over rape and other gender-based violence against women and children as

Somalia’s Islamist group Al-Shabaab said on Friday they had set up a COVID-19 treatment centre in the country, and said

Gold production in Democratic Republic of Congo continues to be systematically under-reported while tonnes of the precious metal is smuggled

France’s top administrative court has ruled that a researcher could access former President Francois Mitterrand’s archives on the 1994 Rwandan

Burundi’s constitutional court has agreed that president-elect Evariste Ndayishimiye should be sworn in immediately after the death of former leader

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa eased restrictions on movement implemented in March to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, to

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Friday said its facing a critical funding gap to meet the

The transport sector in Mozambique registered an estimated loss of 7.6 billion meticais (about 109 million U.S. dollars) in the

Ratings agency Fitch said on Friday it expected South Africa’s economy to shrink 5.5% this year, as the coronavirus lockdown