Rwanda has opened Africa’s first smartphone manufacturing plant in the capital, Kigali, in an event attended by President Paul Kagame....

More than 1,000 people have drowned in 2019 so far trying to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe, the UN...

BBC journalist Hanna Yusuf, whose recent work included an investigation into working conditions at Costa Coffee stores, has died aged...

Ugandan investigative reporter and news anchor Solomon Serwanjja has won the 2019 BBC World News Komla Dumor Award. Serwanjja is...

Zimbabwe announced on Thursday that ex-president Robert Mugabe will be buried at his home village in Zvimba as requested by...

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have arrived in South Africa with their four-month-old son Archie, for their first official...

The recent closure of the Nigerian borders with West African neighbors might hamper the implementation of the free trade movement...

Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya and Egypt were named among the world’s most dangerous places to live and work in, for...

Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s first post-independence leader, has died aged 95. He died after battling ill health, his family confirmed to...

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has condemned a wave of looting and violence that has mostly targeted foreign nationals. “There...