The World Bank says it has approved a $270m loan to Zambia to help it recover from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.

New British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has vowed to fix the errors made by his predecessor Liz Truss while warning of difficult decisions ahead.

Kenya’s new 22-member cabinet is set to be sworn in a day after they were approved by parliament.

Pakistan will hold a formal inquiry into the killing in Kenya of a top TV news anchor Arshad Sharif who fled the country to avoid sedition charges.

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed Nigeria’s desire to widen the scope of trade relations with the Republic of Korea beyond gas exports.

UN says while plans submitted by most signatories of the Paris Agreement will reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, they are still not ambitious enough to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius by the end of the century.

Bangladesh rescue workers found the bodies of four missing crew of a dredger boat, taking the death toll from Cyclone Sitrang to 28 as millions remained without power.

Turkish authorities on Wednesday detained the chairwoman of the country’s top medical union.