A 17-year-old boy has been killed by gunfire in southern Senegal, a government official has said, and several police stations were ransacked as opponents of President Macky Sall called for more protests next week.

At least 20 people have been killed and 30 wounded by a suicide car bomb just outside a restaurant near the port in Somalia's capital Mogadishu.

Senegal opposition leader Ousmane Sonko has been held in custody at a court hearing, two days after his arrest sparked the country's worst violence in years.

Rwanda has began its Covid-19 vaccine campaign, becoming the first nation in Africa to use pharmaceutical company doses that require ultra-cold storage.

While many countries have experienced negative economic growth in 2020 owing to Covid-19, Zimbabwe has recorded a surprising spike in production.

Zipline has started delivering coronavirus vaccines via drone in Ghana as part of COVAX's first-ever shipment of vaccines to low-income countries.

A Tunisian judge has sentenced a feminist activist to six months in prison on charges of "insulting police and abuse of morals", her lawyers have said.

Eritrean forces have shot dead hundreds of children and civilians in a massacre in neighbouring Ethiopia's war-hit Tigray region, Human Rights Watch has said.

Senegalese police have clashed with supporters of arrested opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, leaving one person dead in the south of the country, a police official has said.

Most African countries will kick-start their Covid-19 vaccination programs by the end of March as efforts to procure doses for the continent's 1.3 billion people gather pace.

At least 20 people have drowned after smugglers threw dozens of migrants overboard during a crossing between Djibouti and Yemen.

Egypt has expanded its coronavirus vaccination rollout to include the elderly and people with chronic diseases after several weeks of vaccinating medical staff.

The UN rights chief has said that her office had corroborated grave violations that could amount to "war crimes and crimes against humanity" in Ethiopia's Tigray region.

Amid the economic gloom of the coronavirus disaster and associated negative growth, one sector is shining brightly for Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe might have eased back from the bulk of the Covid-19-induced restrictions that were imposed at the start of the year, but the operating conditions for restaurants will leave half of the sector on the brink of closure, according to the industr...

At least 10 people, including the two pilots, have died when a plane crashed at an airstrip in South Sudan's Jonglei state, the region's governor and the airline has said.

The head of Senegal's leading opposition party has said he will appear before a judge to answer questions over rape allegations.

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.