Isaac Kaledzi

Ethiopian lawmakers have voted to extend the state of emergency declared six months ago for an additional four months.

At least 60 Tanzanian Muslims say they have been held for four years without trial on terror charges and have threatened to boycott any future hearings, local media reported Wednesday.

The Zambia police has announced that its officers will start arresting people who dress indecently in public.

A pilot for Air Djibouti has become the first African pilot in history to fly solo around the world.

A rubber boat packed with migrants sank in the Mediterranean and the presumed sole survivor - a 16-year-old Gambian boy - told rescuers he believed all other passengers drowned, the International Migration Organization (IOM) said on Wednesday.

A media summit in Accra, Ghana next week will be examining the role of digital media as millions of Africans continue to engage in various activities online via social media.

Democratic Republic of Congo's government said on Wednesday it will investigate the deaths of an American and a Swedish expert for the United Nations and their interpreter, whose bodies were found in a shallow grave Monday after the team disappeared more than two weeks ago.

Cameroon's Africa Cup of Nations-winning coach Hugo Broos has threatened to quit over management and funding problems in the national team set-up.

It is becoming increasingly difficult for rescuers in South Africa to find the Ghanaian Unicef director who went missing in that country.

A US federal judge in Hawaii has indefinitely extended the suspension of President Trump's new travel ban.