Angola said on Tuesday it would attempt to broker direct talks between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in the coming days.

Uganda's military chief said his country had deployed special forces in South Sudan's capital Juba to "secure it" as tensions between President Salva Kiir and his First Vice President Riek Machar stoke fears of a return to civil war.

Fighters from a new jihadist group torched seven villages in northwest Nigeria over the weekend and killed 11 people in a revenge attack, a police spokesperson told AFP on Monday.

President Chapo has invited opposition leaders to enter a dialogue but has excluded opposition leader Mondlane, instead using violence against his supporters. Observers are doubtful about any real peacebuilding efforts.

South Sudan's president appealed for calm and pledged his country would "not go back to war", after a UN helicopter was attacked and a crew member killed on a rescue mission on Friday.

Petroleum Minister Puot Kang Chol and General Doup Lam have been arrested, and Vice President Riek Machar's residence surrounded, as troops loyal to South Sudan's President Salva Kiir conduct an apparent crackdown.

As the effects of a devastating drought take hold in Zimbabwe, rural residents must also contend with fewer aid deliveries amid the Trump administration's sudden cuts to foreign humanitarian programmes.

Lesotho was taken aback by US President Donald Trump's mockery of the southern African nation, its foreign minister said on Wednesday, as the country's main LGBTQ rights organisation denied receiving funds from Washington.

Mozambican police fired on supporters of opposition leader Venancio Mondlane marching in the capital Maputo on Wednesday, injuring at least 10 people, Mondlane's team and a human rights researcher said.

Many African countries are facing acute economic challenges. As the number of super-rich on the continent grows, so do calls to impose wealth taxes.

Mozambican President Daniel Chapo has told President Cyril Ramaphosa the situation in his country was "good and now working".

Germany has halted new development aid to Rwanda and is reviewing its existing commitments in response to the African nation's role in the conflict in neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo, the German development ministry said on Tuesday.

Lema Tefera's voice broke as he described losing four children to malaria in just one month - deaths that could likely have been prevented if not for the conflict in Ethiopia's Oromia region.

Four predominantly Muslim states in northern Nigeria have ordered the closure of schools for the holy month of Ramadan, drawing the threat of nationwide protests on Monday from an education union.

Sam Nujoma, Namibia's independence leader, has been buried in a state funeral. Thousands of Namibians have already paid homage to the widely revered former president in almost a month of official mourning.

Namibia's Supreme Court dismissed a challenge against last year's presidential election brought by opposition parties, clearing the way for the ruling party's Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah to take office.

The blasts rocked a meeting of the M23 armed group in eastern DRC's second-largest city. Some 65 people were injured.

MTN Nigeria, the mobile operator’s largest market, has reported a threefold increase in its annual loss, driven by foreign exchange pressures and a sharp rise in operating expenses.

The World Food Programme has halted aid distribution in the Zamzam camp in North Darfur. WFP officials said intensified fighting between the military and RSF paramilitary forced them to stop providing the aid.

DRC President Felix Tshisekedi announced he is going to reach out to opposition leaders in a bid to create a unity government, as a humanitarian crisis deepens in the country's east with the advance of M23 rebels.