South African mobile operators MTN and Vodacom are both in the running for Ethiopia’s new nationwide telecommunications licence.

The World Bank on Wednesday granted $100 million for an emergency recovery project in northern Mozambique, where hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by a jihadist insurgency.

Malawi's highest court on Wednesday outlawed the death penalty and ordered the re-sentencing of all convicts facing execution.

Zimbabwe's High Court on Wednesday quashed charges of communicating false information levelled against journalist and government critic Hopewell Chin’ono, saying the law used by police to arrest him in January no longer existed.

Three European journalists -- two Spanish and one Irish -- have been killed in an attack on an anti-poaching patrol in Burkina Faso, officials said Tuesday.

A Chinese-owned mining company denied on Tuesday it had drilled holes in a burial site in Zimbabwe, after local people complained about what they viewed as the desecration of graves.

Southern African heads of state will be asked to consider the deployment of almost 3 000 personnel to help the Mozambican military "combat threat of terrorism and acts of violent extremism" in the northern Cabo Delgado province.

Two more students were killed after being kidnapped with others last week by gunmen in northwest Nigeria, local authorities have said, bringing the death toll from the attack to six.

Egypt has toughened penalties for female genital mutilation, imposing prison terms of up to 20 years in a push to end the ancient practice.

Zimbabwe is selling rights to shoot up to 500 elephants this year to generate public revenue, the country's wildlife agency said Monday, weeks after the animals were listed as endangered.

Chad's new military rulers named a civilian politician, Albert Pahimi Padacke, as prime minister of a transitional government on Monday.

For years, Zimbabwean single mother Spiwe Tembo would sell buns on the streets of central Harare, earning enough to feed her three children. But her fortunes have dived.

At least 31 Nigerian soldiers were killed when IS-aligned jihadists ambushed a military convoy escorting weapons and overran a base in northeast Nigeria's Borno state, military sources told AFP on Monday.

Somali opposition fighters took up positions in parts of the tense capital on Monday, a day after clashes with government troops erupted over the president's bid to extend his mandate.

French engergy company Total confirmed on Monday that it has withdrawn all personnel from its northern Mozambique liquefied natural gas project's Afungi site.

Chad's new ruling junta said Sunday it would not negotiate with rebels in the north of the poor Sahel country and asked for help from neighbouring Niger to capture their leader.

Three United Nations peacekeepers were on Sunday seriously injured in a rocket attack on a military base in the north of the conflict-ridden Sahel state, UN and local officials said.

Algeria's defence ministry said it had broken up a cell of separatist militants accused of "planning attacks" against pro-democracy rallies in the North African nation.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has received a coronavirus vaccination under a nationwide vaccination drive, his office has said.

Rebels in northern Chad are ready to observe a ceasefire and to discuss a political settlement after the battlefield death of President Idriss Deby last week, a rebel spokesman has said.