A deadly heatwave in West Africa and the Sahel was "impossible" without human-induced climate change, scientists say.

Newly elected Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has formally appointed opposition leader Ousmane Sonko the country’s new prime minister.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Wednesday declared Zimbabwe’s drought a national disaster and said the country needed more than two billion dollars in aid to feed millions facing hunger.

Uganda's constitutional court on Wednesday refused to annul or suspend an anti-LGBTQ law that includes the death penalty for certain same-sex acts, but voided some provisions it said are inconsistent with certain fundamental human rights.

Rwanda on Sunday begins sombre commemorations for the 30th anniversary of the 1994 genocide, a mass slaughter orchestrated by Hutu extremists against the Tutsi minority over 100 bloody days.

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s planning minister Judith Suminwa Tuluka, was Monday appointed as the African nation’s first woman prime minister, state television announced.

A bus crash in South Africa's northern province of Limpopo resulted in 45 deaths and one serious injury, South Africa's Department of Transport said on Thursday.

Senegal's ruling coalition candidate Amadou Ba has called the opposition's Bassirou Diomaye Faye to concede victory in Sunday's presidential election, a government official said.

Early results in Senegal's presidential election suggest opposition candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye may have clinched an outright majority, though his rival in the ruling coalition said a run-off vote would be needed to determine the winner.

Senegal began voting Sunday for a new president in an unpredictable race following three years of turmoil and political crisis.

Authorities in Chad said on Sunday they had barred 10 candidates, including two fierce opponents of the military regime, from standing in the presidential election on May 6.

Without critical action, nearly 230,000 children and new mothers in war-ravaged Sudan are “likely to die from hunger”, Save the Children warned on Wednesday.

The Senegalese government has set March 24 as the new date for the country’s delayed presidential election.

The military-ruled West African states of Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso plan to set up a joint force to fight Islamist terrorist groups.

Roadblocks and heavy security were in place around an opposition party’s HQ in Chad’s capital on Thursday, a day after gunfire erupted nearby following a deadly attack on the security agency.