Local church officials say 164 civilians have been killed in Dengolat, with most of the deaths occurring on 30 November.

Hundreds of civilians in Cabo Delgado killed by rebels, gov’t forces and private militia, Amnesty says.

Nearly four million coronavirus jabs have arrived in Nigeria, making Africa's most populous nation the latest country to receive vaccines from Covax.

Egyptian authorities have executed 11 people convicted of murder, a security source has said, in what rights campaigners have labelled "a horrifying execution spree".

Jihadists linked to the Islamic State have attacked a UN base and overrun a humanitarian hub in Nigeria, trapping 25 aid workers, security and humanitarian sources have said.

Four media workers in Ethiopia's conflict-wracked Tigray region, including a translator working for Agence France-Presse, have been arrested and detained.

Gunmen have released girls who were kidnapped from a boarding school in the northwest Nigerian state of Zamfara, the governor has announced.

At least 11 people have been killed and three injured when a gold mine collapsed in northern Burkina Faso.

Officials in Nigeria's Zamfara state are in touch with the gunmen who abducted 317 schoolgirls last week and are negotiating their release, two state officials told Reuters.

Zimbabwe's Vice President Kembo Mohadi has resigned, saying this was meant to save the image of the government following local media reports of improper conduct.

MTN has updated the registrations of 48.7% of its Nigerian subscribers since December. It has until April 6 to update many millions more.

People have queued early as the Ivory Coast prepared to become the first country to launch a Covid-19 inoculation drive.

Unrest broke out in an Algerian town after a blogger and activist was handed a seven-year jail sentence for condoning acts of terrorism, a news website has reported.

Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo has urged citizens of the West African state to ignore conspiracy theories surrounding coronavirus vaccines.

South Africa is not in a position to pronounce on whether the Ugandan elections was free and fair.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Saturday called on the African Union and other international partners to help address a deepening crisis in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region as he condemned alleged atrocities in fighting there.

Gunmen in Nigeria on Saturday released 27 teenage boys who were kidnapped from their school last week in the north-central state of Niger, while security forces continued to search for more than 300 schoolgirls abducted in a nearby state.

Business executives are sounding decidedly upbeat in Zimbabwe, a sea change from the pessimism they’ve expressed through two decades of economic mismanagement and institutional decay.

Kidnappers have freed 42 people, including 27 children, snatched from a school in central Nigeria 10 days ago, officials said on Saturday, a day after more than 300 schoolgirls were abducted by gunmen in the northwest.

Unidentified gunmen seized more than 300 girls in a nighttime raid on a school in northwest Nigeria on Friday and are believed to be holding some of them in a forest, police said.