Zimbabweans yesterday voted in the first election since former president Robert Mugabe was ousted in a de facto coup, with allegations of voter suppression raising fears of a disputed result.

Mali went to the polls yesterday, with President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita seeking a second 5-year term in the fragile Sahel state beset by deadly ethnic and jihadist violence. After a campaign marred by violent incidents, 23,000 polling stations opened at 0800 GMT and are scheduled to close at 1800 GMT.

Zimbabwe goes to the polls tomorrow in its first election since authoritarian leader Robert Mugabe was ousted last year, with allegations

A new Ebola virus has been found in bats in Sierra Leone, two years after the end of an outbreak that killed over 11,000 across West

Fighters of the al Shabaab group attack a military base with a suicide car bomb in the south of Somalia, killing 27 soldiers, the group says, a blast heard by residents of a nearby town.

Flooding caused by torrential rains on Nigeria's border with Niger has left 49 people dead and another 20 missing, the emergency services said yesterday.

Tanzania's President John Magufuli who has come under fire for his authoritarian leadership style has vowed that his ruling party will be "in power forever, for eternity".

The Egyptian parliament yesterday approved in a final reading a bill that would allow authorities to monitor social media users with the aim of combatting "fake news", the legislature said.

Two explosions rocked Somalia's internal security ministry in the capital Mogadishu yesterday morning killing five civilians, a police

More than 200 people were killed in violence against farming communities last weekend in Plateau state, central Nigeria, according to a

A Bangladeshi peacekeeper in South Sudan is killed today when an aid convoy was ambushed in the west of the country, the United Nations mission says.

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday called for calm after 86 people were killed in an attack by suspected nomadic

Ethiopia's new Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa escaped attacks on their respective rallies

Twenty-five bodies were found in central Mali after the army carried out a sweep in the unstable region, sources said yesterday, adding

A man stabbed two people to death and wounded two others in an attack yesterday at a mosque in South Africa before being shot dead

Nine people were killed in three suicide bombings in southeastern Niger near the border with Nigeria, a local official says.

This year, plastic pollution is the main theme of International Environment Day, celebrated on June 5.

An anti-immigration opposition party won Slovenia's parliamentary election on Sunday, taking 25 percent of the vote, according to

Cattle thieves have killed 23 people in Nigeria's Zamfara state which has been battling cattle rustling and kidnapping in recent months, a

Cattle thieves have killed 23 people in northern Nigeria's Zamfara state which has been battling cattle rustling and kidnapping in recent months, a local government official says.