Assailants were heavily armed with assault weapons, rocket-propelled grenades, and improvised explosive devices.

The most powerful of the Central African Republic's armed groups said in a statement on Monday it will quit a rebel coalition aiming to unseat President Faustin Archange Touadera.

An Ethiopian Airlines cargo plane flying into Zambia accidentally landed at an airport that is still under construction, a government official says.

Mozambique's military has said a 'significant' number of militants had been killed during a battle over a key northern town and gas hub captured by the Islamic State.

Online rumors and fake news headlines said Marwa Elselehdar was the captain of the Ever Given container ship blocking the Suez Canal.

More than 100 000 doses of Russia's Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine arrived at Tripoli's Mitiga airport on Sunday, Libya's ministry of health said, the first shipment to reach the country.

As she stepped off an evacuation boat from the besieged town of Palma in northern Mozambique, Mariamo Assane broke down, reliving the harrowing day she fled a ferocious rampage by Islamist militants.

An Islamic-State-linked group has claimed the violence that erupted in Mozambique over a week ago.

The UN agency World Food Programme said Saturday it has suspended evacuation flights from northern Mozambique's Afungi peninsula over security concerns, a day after French energy giant Total shut its operations in the area.

French energy giant Total has shut its operations and withdrawn all staff from a site in northern Mozambique following last week's deadly jihadist attack in the area, security sources said on Friday.

A new investigation details how President Hage Geingob allegedly instructed associates to embezzle millions of dollars.

French energy giant Total has shut its operations and withdrawn all staff from a site in northern Mozambique following last week's deadly jihadist attack in the area, security sources said Friday.

Kenya has ordered an immediate halt to imports of Covid-19 vaccines by private companies, the health minister said on Friday, saying such shipments were unlicensed and potentially dangerous because the shots could be counterfeit.

Several other soldiers wounded in attack on MINUSMA’s base in Aguelhok, peacekeeping mission says.

Mohamed Bazoum, sworn in on Friday as president of the troubled Sahel state of Niger, worked for years as the right-hand man of his predecessor Mahamadou Issoufou.

The British charity says two staff members suspended as part of an investigation into alleged sexual misconduct.

The owners of the giant container ship filed a lawsuit against the Evergreen Marine Corporation in the UK's High Court, according to The Lawyer.

Egypt may try to collect compensation for the time, equipment, and effort that went into freeing the boat, but it is not clear who will foot the bill.

The G7 group of leading nations has called for the “swift” withdrawal of Eritrean troops from Ethiopia’s conflict-hit northern Tigray region, as the International Crisis Group (ICG) warned of a prolonged deadlock.

Niger's newly-elected president Mohamed Bazoum is set to be sworn into office on Friday, a democratic watershed overshadowed by jihadist violence and alleged coup bid two days ago.