US envoy says he's working on DR Congo minerals deal

The UK Home Office was unable to process Julius Malema's application in time for his trip, the High Commission says.

The four suspects – two Belgians, a Vietnamese and a Kenyan – were arrested last month with 5,000 ants.

Migrants may be flown to the troubled North African nation as part of the US' immigration crackdown.

After securing Olympic relay and World Indoor medals, South African sprint star Akani Simbine says he has "never given up on trying to be the best".

The army has repeatedly accused the Gulf nation of backing the RSF, something which the UAE denies.

A new people-smuggling route opens up crossing a lake into Kenya, but it is proving deadly for some Eritreans.

Nice and Burundi defender Youssouf Ndayishimiye says he always hoped football would prove to be his route out of "unimaginable poverty".

The Catholic Church in Kenya says he is unwell in response to reports that he had not been invited.

People from Pakistan, Nigeria and Sri Lanka may find it more difficult to come to the UK, under new plans.

Opposition supporters say the constitution has been flouted. The president says allegations must be investigated.

Eddie Mutwe is in severe pain after being beaten and electrocuted in custody, his lawyer says.

The UAE opted out of part of the Genocide Convention meaning it cannot face genocide allegations itself.

The six-month-old died in 2017 after being hit by police deployed to quell election violence.

Rwanda's foreign minister says his country is in the "spirit" of giving migrants "another chance".

The footwear hit the president on his outstretched arm as he spoke at a public rally.

Angola will use its chairmanship of the African Union this year to advance the creation of a continental financial stability mechanism, its finance minister said, to cushion economies from sliding into a liquidity crisis due to e

Ethiopian Tilahun Nigussie wins the Belfast Marathon in a new event record of two hours, 13 minutes and 37 seconds after dominating the race.

The first of South Africa’s soldiers have safely withdrawn from the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

It is the first time RSF attacks have reached the city, which is the de-facto capital of the army-led government.

"He is a God [who approves] of polygamy," rang out as a congregation celebrated 55 marriages over Easter.

MSF said its hospital was attacked as fears grow of a return to civil war in South Sudan.

Faure Gnassingbé's new role has no official term limits and his critics say it is a "coup d'état".

Meta on Saturday vowed to fight Nigerian fines for various consumer data violations as the US tech giant reportedly threatened to cut off Facebook and Instagram in Africa's most populous country.

Ali Laarayedh is the latest high-profile critic of the president to be jailed as campaigners slam "sham trials".

Tidjane Thiam is challenging a court decision removing him from the electoral roll ahead of October's poll.

Tidjane Thiam has been banned from standing in October's elections in Ivory Coast. So what is his next move?

Lydia Mugambe kept a young woman as an unpaid nanny and maid at her home in Oxfordshire.

Joshlin Smith's disappearance last year sent shockwaves across South Africa. She is yet to be found.

Uganda's military chief, the son of President Yoweri Museveni, says he is holding an opposition activist in his basement and has threatened violence against him, after the man's party said he was abducted by armed men last week.