Isaac Kaledzi

49 people have been reported to have drowned when the boat they were traveling in tipped over in a river in northern Democratic Republic of Congo.

US President Donald Trump has cancelled a planned summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

An opposition party leader in Zambia has been released from custody after he was detained for defaming the country’s President Edgar Lungu.

The President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa is to donate half of his salary to charity work to honour the late Nelson Mandela who was the country’s first black president.

Algeria will expel 105 Malians for being members of the Ansar Eddine militant group, an official source said on Wednesday, the first such action in the North African country against the group.

Talks in Ethiopia to revive South Sudan’s failed 2015 peace pact and end the country’s civil war broke up on Wednesday without a deal, mediators said, potentially prolonging a conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced millions.

The military in Nigeria has been accused of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity by the human rights group, Amnesty International.

The death toll from the cyclone that hit Somaliland has now reached over 50, according to government officials in the self-declared east African nation.

A New York couple have won their legal battle to evict their 30-year-old son from home after he refused to leave.

The South African gold miner AngloGold Ashanti has announced that it will be cutting some 2,000 jobs at its domestic operations.