Thirty-two people died and five were injured on Tuesday when a truck carrying mourners collided with a car and three other vehicles in Uganda, the Ugandan Red Cross said.

A stunned silence, and then cries of joy ring out in the green Bisesero hills.

A businesswoman has recalled the "horrendous" week she spent in the Covid-19 wing of a city public hospital, where the sense of crisis was lifted only briefly by whoops of joy when a patient secured one of the few available tanks of oxygen.

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has said six new cases of the British variant of coronavirus were found in the West African nation at the weekend.

Two camps destroyed during fighting in November left thousands of mostly Eritrean refugees vulnerable and now missing.

Sudan’s Irrigation Minister said citizens living near Blue Nile at risk as Addis Ababa plans to resume filling of GERD.

Nigeria expects to receive 41 million Covid-19 vaccine doses from the African Union, the head of the country's primary healthcare agency said.

A lack of new investment, rising costs, load shedding and the challenges of keeping some of the world's deepest operational mines have seen SA's share of the gold market shrink.

At least five people, including a prominent former general, were killed in an hours-long Al-Shabaab attack on a Mogadishu hotel, which ended around midnight, Somali police said.

Minister for State Security Owen Ncube is among those hit with travel bans and asset freezes.

Lawyers for Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine have filed a challenge in the Supreme Court against President Yoweri Museveni's victory in last month's election, claiming the poll was rigged.

A Kenyan lawyer accused of bribing witnesses in the failed International Criminal Court case against Deputy President William Ruto was released on Monday under strict conditions, the ICC said.

Ghana plans to procure 17.6 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine by the end of June with the first doses arriving in March, President Nana Akufo-Addo said on Sunday.

Zimbabwe has failed to restore friendly relations with the West, and its “look east policy” has not born any fruits. Henning Melber and Roger Southall write that this has left the Mnangagwa regime with few options.

Ghana has reimposed a ban on social gatherings as the number of Covid-19 cases spiral in the West African nation, the president announced Sunday.

Nine people died in an attack at a hotel on Sunday in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, and security forces ended the assault by al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab fighters early on Monday, a police spokesperson said.

The southern African Kingdom of Eswatini is overhauling its tax system and reducing its debt arrears as it seeks to shore up its finances amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Amid the Covid surge that has also left many officials dead, Zimbabwean authorities come face to face with reality long faced by poor.

Zimbabwean Finance Secretary George Guvamatanga said the money will allow the country to inoculate about 60% of its population estimated to be around 15 million people.

African leaders from the Great Lakes region called on rebels in the conflict-riven Central African Republic to agree to a ceasefire on Friday.