Out with the Zimbabwe dollar, in with the ZiG. Zimbabwe on Tuesday started circulating a new currency to replace one that has been battered by depreciation and often outright rejection by the people.

The UK government has said it would pay asylum seekers up to £3,000 (about US$3,745) each to move to Rwanda to help clear the backlog of refugees who have arrived in the country in recent years.

The latest deaths bring the toll from heavy rains and flooding since last month to more than 100.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s latest effort to send some migrants to Rwanda finally won approval from parliament early Tuesday, hours after he pledged deportation flights would begin in July.

Mali is ill-equipped to cope with heatwaves and frequently suffers from electricity cuts, making it difficult to rely on fans or air conditioners.

Two-way trade between China and Africa has defied expectations, growing despite economic challenges.

Organisations from Kenya and Ethiopia have signed up to the China-led space initiative to build a lunar base.

Kenya’s defence chief and nine other top brass died on Thursday in a military helicopter crash in a remote area of the country, President William Ruto said.

Sudan’s brutal civil war erupted a year ago, sparking one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.

Under the policy, asylum seekers who arrive illegally in Britain will be sent to the East African nation, in a bid to deter cross-channel crossings.

Amid a new Chinese appetite for avocados, South Africa will become the third African nation to export the fruit.

After pausing them during the pandemic, Beijing’s growing military diplomacy is seeing more frequent port visits.

The United Nations migration agency says 38 migrants are dead, and 22 others have been rescued from a shipwreck off Djibouti on a popular route to Yemen.

Chinese workers are building a railway in the Sahara Desert, in China’s latest step in diversifying its iron ore supply.

Makeshift ferry was carrying about 130 people when it sank. Most passengers were trying to escape mainland because of disinformation about cholera, a government official said.

Sore and sandblasted but triumphant, runner Russ Cook reached the northernmost point of Africa on Sunday, almost a year after he set off from its southern tip.

A week of national mourning has begun as the nation remembers the victims shot, beaten or hacked to death by Hutu extremists, fuelled by anti-Tutsi propaganda broadcasts.

Earnings by Chinese firms from construction works in Africa have dropped by 31 per cent since 2015. Experts say this is the ‘new normal’.

Muslims from Canada to the UK are seeking to move to multicultural Malaysia for its pro-Palestinian stance and ‘liberating’ environment for adherents of the faith.

Rwanda has made it a criminal offence to withhold information about a previously unknown mass grave though they are still mostly found by accident, leading to new arrests and traumatising survivors all over again.

Zimbabwe’s declaration follows similar actions by neighbouring Zambia and Malawi, where drought linked to the El Nino weather phenomenon has scorched crops.

The animal flipped the vehicle at Kafue National Park, fatally wounding an 80-year-old woman and injuring 4 others.

The girl and her mother were placed under police protection soon after the marriage, as Ghana’s attorney general opened an investigation.

Uganda’s constitutional court declined to nullify or suspend an Anti-Homosexuality law that prescribes the death penalty for certain same-sex acts.