Genetics researchers who have been watching for new coronavirus variants say they've seen a troubling new lineage that carries many of the same hallmarks as other strains, including Alpha, Beta and Gamma.

Tanzania's women football team have reacted following comments from Tanzania's female President Samia Suluhu Hassan describing female footballers as "flat-chested," and unattractive for marriage.

Emmanuel Agbenro sits helplessly inside his sparsely-decorated ward at the National Hospital in Nigeria's capital Abuja. He is supposed to be having treatment for colon cancer but his treatment has stalled as doctors in Nigeria have downed tools in a nationwide strike over better pay and conditions.

Asiya Mohammed, a double amputee, has made history by becoming the first female rower to represent Kenya in an Olympic or Paralympic Games.

A gunman killed three police officers and a private security guard on a rampage through a diplomatic quarter of Tanzania's main city Dar es Salaam on Wednesday, before being shot dead while holed up in a guardhouse at the French embassy's gate.

Afghanistan's only girls' boarding school has evacuated dozens of students and staff to Rwanda, the president of the privately-run institution said Tuesday.

With "Super Sema," Clara Njeru and the Kukua production company are showing African children role models, both on screen and off.

One World's Larry Madowo challenges Ugandan Foreign Minister Gen. Jeje Odongo denial of recent accusations made about violations against human rights made by the government.

Zambia's newly-elected president, Hakainde Hichilema, has been sworn into office after pulling off a stunning rare victory for an African opposition leader.

Inside a hospital in a leafy campus in the shadow of Mount Kenya, workers dressed head-to-toe in pale green Hazmat suits load a shrouded body into an ambulance.

Inside a hospital in a leafy campus in the shadow of Mount Kenya, workers dressed head-to-toe in pale green Hazmat suits load a shrouded body into an ambulance.

The coronation of a dashing young monarch in the oil-rich Delta region has sparked a resurgence in royalty, tradition and ancestry among some young Nigerians.

It was a roll call of Nigeria's most powerful political elites when Yusuf Buhari, son of Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari, wed the daughter of a prominent monarch in northwestern Kano State, over the weekend in a lavish ceremony.

The JD Malat Gallery in London's Mayfair is everything you'd expect an exclusive art space to be. The premises are immaculate and highly ordered, the owner and staff even more so.

From a distance, Jacqueline Suowari's larger-than-life portraits look like monochromatic photographs overlaid with colorful graphics. Upon closer inspection, you see these dramatic images are the culmination of thousands of tiny lines made using a simple ballpoint pen.

A second young woman abducted seven years ago from the town of Chibok by Boko Haram militants was freed this week, Borno state's governor has said.

Opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema has won a landslide victory over incumbent Edgar Lungu in Zambia's presidential election, results showed on Monday.

It is one of the most anticipated Nollywood films of all time and the trailer for King Of Boys: The Return Of The King was released Monday amid frenzy from fans of the crime and political thriller, who call themselves the KOB Army.