Museveni votes as Uganda election unfolds amid delays and crackdown

Author's tragedy puts Nigeria's healthcare system under scrutiny

US firm sues DR Congo over alleged bribery scheme

Eto'o handed ban and fine for misconduct at AFCON

'I begged them' - The Guinean mother deported from Belarus without her baby

Kenya secures zero-duty access to China

Ethiopia accuses Eritrea of arming rebels in escalating war of words

US adds one more African country to its multi-million dollar bilateral health deal

New calls for humanitarian truce in Sudan as peace talks resume in Cairo

Madagascar military receives equipment and training from Russia

Uganda votes in tense election seen as test of Museveni's strength

Widespread delays hit Uganda election amid internet shutdown

Ugandans choose between pop star and veteran leader in presidential poll

Why the UAE has incurred the wrath of Somalia

Ugandan: Threats will not prevent me from doing my duty - EC boss

Sudan's war has left the country's economy shattered

Uganda faces mounting calls to end internet blackout before elections

Uganda election chief says he has had threats over results declaration

Nigeria enlists US lobbyists to communicate Christian protection efforts

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

Somalia cancels UAE agreements over sovereignty concerns

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, 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