Uganda's president urges people to vote in Thursday's general election

Algeria's president urges youth living abroad illegally to come home

Benin offers citizenship to African diaspora, with help from Spike Lee

Tunisian journalist Chatha Belhaj Mubarak freed after sentence cut

Nigeria enlists US lobbyists to communicate Christian protection efforts

Boost for Africa's largest economy as EU drops South Africa from risk register

Nigeria, UAE strike trade pact to scrap tariffs on over 7,000 products

'Welcome to 2976' - North Africa's Amazigh people ring in the new year

Uganda imposes an internet blackout ahead of Thursday's election

Operation against Nigerian kidnapping gang kills '200 bandits' - Official tells BBC

Nigeria: Govs budget N525bn for security as killings spread

South Africa welcomes US House approval of Africa trade programme renewal

Pope Leo to visit Angola as part of an Africa tour, Vatican envoy says

Uganda shuts down internet ahead of election, orders rights groups to halt work

Trump administration moves to end deportation protection for Somalis

Landslide in eastern Congo kills at least 13, leaves over 30 missing

Uganda's military deployed in national capital before presidential election

Gunmen attack three industrial sites in western Mali, kidnap civilians

US bolsters Nigeria's military with supplies in security partnership

UNHCR chief urge global backing for Kenya's refugee integration plan

Bobi Wine warns of protests if Uganda election is rigged

The Gambia Reparations Commission begins payments to victims of Jammeh-era abuses

UN says doctors in Sudan are doing all they can to provide support to people

'Miracle baby' born in a tree above Mozambique floodwaters dies aged 25

Niger revokes licences of tanker drivers who refuse to go to Mali amid jihadist blockade

Somalia cancels all agreements with United Arab Emirates

Rwanda nominates former top diplomat for third term as Francophonie head

UN agency praises Kenya's efforts to integrate refugees in Kakuma camp

Nigeria: Gunmen demand N100m for eight abducted Edo residents

Uganda: Govt suspends five rights groups ahead of elections

Veteran Ugandan leader eyes new term in election amid succession talk

Uganda: LC1 chairperson arrested over defacement of campaign posters in Rukungiri

Uganda's first female orthopaedic surgeon seeks Shs200m for kidney transplant

Uganda Supreme Court dismisses cases seeking to block election

Teenage super sub Mbaye could prove decisive for Senegal

Uganda vote overshadowed by detentions, intimidation and fears of violence

Ugandan churchgoers pray and fast for peaceful presidential election

Humanitarian workers face rising attacks in Eastern DR Congo

Pakistan scraps free VPA visas for 34 African countries as travel costs and barriers rise

France launches push to reclaim African market share as Macron orders new strategy

He once criticised African leaders who cling to power; now he wants a seventh term

Sudan's government returns to capital after nearly 3 years of war

Morocco coach angrily rejects AFCON ref bias as Nigeria semifinal looms

South Africa defends BRICS naval drills as ‘essential’ amid tensions

Somali minister says Israel plans to expel Gaza Palestinians to Somaliland

Benin votes in key parliamentary, local polls a month after thwarted coup

Nigerian Actress Yewande Adekoya opens up about 'miscarriage' experience

Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's family accuse hospital of negligence over son's death

'Hounded and harassed': The former pop star taking on Uganda's long-time president

The Gambia: Hospital worker helps feed 200 children in Africa

Meagan Good and Jonathan Majors to gain Guinea citizenship after DNA results

Superior Senegal beat Mali to advance to Cup of Nations semi-finals

Five-star Diaz on target again as Morocco beat Cameroon 2-0

Women bearing the brunt of Sudan's acute hunger crisis, UN says

China's top diplomat postpones visit to Somalia, arrives in Tanzania

Repression, impunity undermine rights in Uganda's election run-up - UN report

Nigeria: Police nab six kidnappers, rescue three in Nasarawa

The Musician and the Strongman Leader: What you need to know about Uganda's election

Jersey returns £7m of 'tainted' funds to Nigeria

Nigeria: Dangote drags ex-NMDPRA boss to EFCC over corruption claims

Somalia says it is investigating Yemen separatist leader flight via Mogadishu

Senegal will not need debt restructuring, prime minister says

Trump says there could be more US strikes in Nigeria, New York Times reports

Borussia Dortmund set to open first African academy in Ghana

Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 'devastated' by death of young son

Uganda: Museveni mobiliser shot dead by minister's UPDF guard in Busia

Nigeria: Rivers Assembly begins impeachment proceedings against Fubara

US halts assistance to Somalia over claims food aid was illegally seized

Ex-Ghana minister detained by US immigration

Zambia drops plan to extend IMF loan programme

China's top diplomat tours Africa with focus on strategic trade routes

Nigeria's ex-justice minister granted bail in $6m corruption case

Rare mountain gorilla twins born in Africa's oldest national park

Uganda travelers to pay Shs18m–Shs56m as US expands visa bonds

Nigeria: Police arrest kidnap suspect, recover guns in Delta

Uganda: NUP MP candidate Mufumbiro faces election from jail after court delays bail ruling

Children killed after drone hits home in Sudan, medics say

At least 22 Ethiopian migrants killed in ‘horrific’ road crash

Uganda: LoP Ssenyonyi, six others await court decision in Bwowe’s Nakawa West petition