Nigerian art creators are leveraging the art world's shift to the digital world through NFTs. And they are increasing their net worth while they're at it, despite a government crackdown on cryptocurrency.

An airstrike in Ethiopia's war-torn northern region of Tigray killed as many as 30 people when it hit a market on Tuesday, eyewitnesses have told CNN.

Climate change is the driving force of a developing food crisis in southern Madagascar, the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) has warned.

Senegal and Liverpool football star Sadio Mane has donated $693,000 (£500,000) to help fund the construction of a hospital in his hometown of Bambali in Senegal.

Ethiopians will head to the polls on Monday amid widespread nationwide unrest, famine, and a raging humanitarian crisis in the country's Tigray region.

Although Kashirah Jackson is back at work, she's still far from recovering from the economic upheaval the coronavirus pandemic wreaked on her finances.

Several students and three teachers were abducted Thursday by armed men from a federal college in Nigeria's north-western Kebbi State, State Governor Abubakar Bagudu told CNN.

A Liberian rebel commander was sentenced in Switzerland to 20 years in jail on Friday for rape, killings and an act of cannibalism, in one of the first ever convictions over the West African country's civil war.

Former Zambian President and independence leader Kenneth Kaunda has died at the age of 97.

Acclaimed Nigerian author and feminist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has published a reflective essay on young people on social media "who are choking on sanctimony and lacking in compassion."

One of the world's largest diamonds has been unearthed in Botswana, the country's government has announced.

Through his fashion label Lagos Space Programme, Adeju Thompson wants to champion conversations around gender and the African experience.

More than 1,000 fortune seekers on Monday flocked to the village of KwaHlathi in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province in search of what they believed to be diamonds after a discovery of unidentified stones in the area.

For more than five years, Gloria Majiga-Kamoto, a 30-year-old Malawian environmental activist, has waged a David v Goliath battle against some of the country's largest plastic manufacturers to bring an end to single-use plastics.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has urged the Group of Seven (G7) countries to help finance the World Health Organization's program to boost Covid-19 testing, diagnostics and vaccines, the presidency said on Sunday.

Lagos-based entrepreneur Ogechi Egemonu was selling more than 500,000 naira ($1,219) worth of watches, shoes and handbags on Twitter per week.

Over 350,000 people in Ethiopia's conflict-ravaged Tigray region are experiencing dire hunger, finds a new report by the United Nations and other aid groups.

Covid-19 cases in Uganda were up 137% this week, the second straight week of a triple-digit spike in infections. The rapid surge in Uganda's brutal second wave has forced the country back into a partial lockdown to curb the spread. CNN's Larry Madowo reports from Kampala, Uganda.

A prominent Nigerian televangelist has died hours after presiding over a program at his Lagos-based megachurch on Saturday.