Hope Hostel is not a 5-star hotel. But it isn't a dump, either. The renovated 50-room facility in Kigali's Kagugu neighborhood has a new coat of paint, fresh bedding, a lot of new security cameras and a changed mission. After hosting student survivors of the 1994 genocide for nearly three decades, it will be the first home for migrants deported from the United Kingdom.

While other artists might use watercolors or oil paints, Mbongeni Buthelezi uses waste plastics to create highly textured portraits at his studio in Booysens, Johannesburg.

The United Kingdom's controversial plan to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda as early as Tuesday is set to go ahead after the Court of Appeal in London confirmed an earlier decision to deny an injunction to block the first flight.

Clarence House said it would not comment on what it calls "supposed anonymous private conversations with The Prince of Wales" after British newspaper The Times reported that Prince Charles privately described the UK government's controversial plan to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda "appalling."

The United Kingdom's controversial plan to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda as early as next week was green-lit on Friday, after the High Court in London denied an injunction to block the first flight.

Endurance athletes Ryan Sandes and Ryno Griesel ran about one and a half marathons every day to cover roughly 1,100 kilometers around the mountainous African country.

Boxer Simiso Buthelezi has died after a fight in Durban, South Africa, in which he ended the bout seemingly ?disoriented.

Belgium's King Philippe reaffirmed his deepest regrets on Wednesday for the exploitation, racism and acts of violence during his country's colonization of the Democratic Republic of Congo, but again stopped short of formally apologizing.

What do a World War Two Lancaster bomber airplane, a Massey Ferguson tractor and a Volkswagen Beetle have in common? Believe it or not, their parts have ended up in some of the most iconic race cars of all time.

Rajesh and Atul Gupta, wanted in South Africa for their alleged involvement in a massive corruption scheme, are awaiting extradition after being arrested in the United Arab Emirates where they are believed to have sought refuge since 2018.

A local lawmaker told CNN that "close to 50 people, including children" were killed when armed attackers opened fire during Mass at a Catholic church in Owo, Ondo State, Nigeria. CNN's David McKenzie reports.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has hit back at allegations of improper conduct over large amounts of cash stolen from his wildlife farm in 2020.

A woman who lost her parents in the southwestern Nigerian city of Owo said they regularly attended the Catholic church where a mass shooting killed dozens of people and left several injured on Sunday.

A church in southwestern Nigeria became the site of a bloody attack on Sunday, according to local lawmakers.

One person was killed in Guinea's capital late on Wednesday during protests over fuel price hikes, in the most serious unrest since a military junta took power last year.

Rwandan-born French actress Sonia Rolland has been placed under formal investigation in France following her indictment in a probe into the huge fortune of the late Gabonese President Omar Bongo, which prosecutors allege includes ill-gotten assets.

In West Africa, where mental health services are severely lacking and superstitions are abundant, we meet three women whose harrowing stories paint a picture of sexual violence, abandonment and the will to survive.

Britain will offer work visas to graduates from the world's best universities in an expansion of its post-Brexit immigration system that is designed to attract the "best and brightest" workers. But no African universities are included in the list of eligible institutions.

Kunle Adeyanju is a self-confessed daredevil who has climbed Mount Kilimanjaro twice and cycled from Lagos to Accra over three days.

South African architecture firm SAOTA has made its name designing elite homes for the super rich.