Gunfire and rockets exploded on Friday in Mogadishu as Somali government forces clashed with protesters angered by delayed elections, hours after fighters loyal to the government and to the political opposition exchanged gunfire.

A Chadian court on Thursday sentenced a rights activist to three years in jail for writing that the country's iron-fisted ruler was seriously ill and being treated in France.

French President Emmanuel Macron has proposed that rich Western countries transfer 3-5 percent of their stock of Covid-19 vaccines to Africa, in an interview with the Financial Times published on Thursday.

An Algerian court on Thursday sentenced to death a jihadist for the kidnapping and beheading of French mountaineer Herve Gourdel six years ago after a high profile one-day trial.

A Tunisian entrepreneur growing edible flowers says she is surprised by the appetite for her homegrown product in the north African country and hopes to see a "new culinary culture" bloom.

Namibia plans to roll out the AstraZeneca vaccine even after SA stalled its use after trials showed it’s less effective against mild infection of a new Covid-19 strain.

China will donate 100 000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines to Namibia, its ambassador to the country said on Thursday.

Zimbabwe kicked-off its Covid-19 vaccination programme on Thursday after receiving a donation of 200 000 doses of the Sinopharm vaccine from China earlier in the week.

Six children were killed and five others injured in northwest Uganda after an old explosive they found in the bushes detonated as they played with it, police said on Thursday.

Zimbabwe's biggest mobile phone operator has been banned from sending coronavirus updates.

Africa's total reported death toll from Covid-19 was approaching 100 000 on Thursday, a fraction of those reported on other continents but rising fast as a second wave of infections overwhelms hospitals.

Paul Rusesabagina, the polarising hero of the hit movie "Hotel Rwanda," went on trial Wednesday on charges including terrorism that drew international calls for his release.

Mombasa is Africa's fifth-busiest harbour. It's also long been a haven for assorted miscreants. Here's why this puts Covid-19 vaccines at risk.

A tropical storm likely to intensify into a cyclone is approaching Mozambique, South Africa's Weather Services said on Wednesday, battering an area hit by cyclone Eloise less than a month back.

Zanzibar's first vice president Seif Sharif Hamad, who led the island's opposition for three decades, died on Wednesday, the president said, after he had been hospitalised for over three weeks with coronavirus.

Gunmen believed to belong to a criminal gang have kidnapped hundreds of schoolboys from their hostels along with some of teachers in central Nigeria, an official and a security source told AFP.

Vulnerable informal workers risk arrest and sickness to try eke out a living and feed their families.

Democratic Republic of Congo's ambassador to Ethiopia and the African Union, Jean Le'on Ngandu Ilunga has hinted that construction on the Inga 3 hydro-power project could start by the end of the year.

Zimbabwe will begin vaccinating against Covid-19 on Thursday, starting with health workers and other essential service personnel, the cabinet announced on Tuesday.

As dawn breaks in central Kenya, a helicopter lifts off in a race to find roosting locusts before the sun warms their bodies and sends them on a ravenous flight through farmland.