Reeddi rents out small, lightweight solar-powered batteries in Nigeria that can power devices including TVs, laptops and refrigerators.

Kenyan opposition leader and former prime minister Raila Odinga has called for weekly nationwide protests against the high cost of living, in a brief address to demonstrators flanking his motorcade in Nairobi Monday.

In Tanzania, WoteSawa Domestic Workers Organization is helping children out of a life of domestic servitude.

Nigerians will on Saturday vote in delayed governorship polls, weeks after a controversial and disputed presidential election.

A Libyan armed group claims to have found the barrels of natural uranium that went missing in southern Libya.

March 11 marked the start of the new season for the Basketball Africa League, whose best players could end up joining the African stars already gracing the NBA.

Tropical Cyclone Freddy is losing strength after it ripped through southern Malawi, killing at least 225 people, but the resulting devastation has left survivors trapped and fighting for survival.

At least 190 people have died after Tropical Cyclone Freddy ripped through southern Malawi, the country's Department of Disaster Management Affairs said Tuesday.

At least 99 people were confirmed dead on Monday after Cyclone Freddy slammed into southern Malawi, the country's Commissioner for Disaster Management Affairs, Charles Kalemba, told CNN.

South African rapper Costa Titch died suddenly this weekend, his family said on Instagram, hours after performing at a music festival.

Governor of Nigeria's Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, says he is temporarily halting his reelection campaign after a train rammed into a public bus in the country's commercial hub Thursday, killing six people and injuring dozens of others.

As Russian missiles rained down on Ukraine in February last year, another grim tale was unfolding on the sidelines: Foreign students, mostly African and Asian, seeking to flee to bordering nations recounted an ordeal of segregation and racism at Ukraine's borders.

Nigeria's electoral commission has postponed governorship elections planned for this weekend by another week, citing limited time to reset its voting machines nearly two weeks after a controversial presidential vote was disputed by opposition parties.

Nigeria's botched attempt to replace its banknotes has been declared invalid by the country's Supreme Court.

Nigeria's third force candidate Peter Obi has won Lagos State, beating influential ruling party candidate Bola Tinubu on his home turf, according to results announced from the state's collation center. Obi's win comes as a surprise as the state is a stronghold of Tinubu, who was expected to easily win the state.

How do you stage elections for more than 93 million voters? With great difficulty, headaches, delays and technical issues, it turns out.

Widespread delays overshadowed a crucial presidential election in Nigeria Saturday, as millions voted to elect their new leader. The hotly contested poll is being held simultaneously with elections for representatives for the country's parliament.

"May Nigeria not happen to you," is a common prayer in Africa's largest economy and most populous nation.

A manhunt is underway for the killers of a senatorial candidate for Nigeria's opposition Labor Party, who was shot and burned in his campaign vehicle late Wednesday in the country's southeastern Enugu State, local police said Thursday.

Nigerians will head to the polls Saturday in a fiercely-contested presidential vote that analysts say is too close to call.