Tanzania has reversed its decision to quarantine travellers from all countries which have identified a surge in new Covid-19 variants.

Six weeks after it was raided by Islamic State-linked fighters, the northern Mozambican town of Palma remains deeply traumatised and hundreds of its residents flee each day, survivors and aid workers say.

Jihadists have killed 35 people, including five troops and 15 militiamen, in two attacks in Nigeria's troubled northern Borno state, sources told AFP.

Consumers, unions and business leaders in Ivory Coast are sounding the alarm about waves of blackouts that are hitting major cities, including the economic capital Abidjan.

Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan has arrived in Kenya for a two-day trip to thaw relations between the neighbours, after years of disputes over trade and border issues.

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni on Sunday signed the East African Crude Oil Pipeline project agreement with his Tanzanian counterpart, Samia Hassan Suhulu.

Nigeria's armed forces have dismissed suggestions that they should take over from President Muhammadu Buhari.

Ivory Coast has arrested around a dozen people, including three nurses, on suspicion of selling fake negative Covid-19 test certificates to air travellers.

Vaccine hesitancy is a global phenomenon and in Africa, a warnings about possible rare blood clots and the rubbishing of vaccines have all contributed to the slow rollout.

MTN started operating in Rwanda in 1998 and Crystal Telecom Limited's shareholders now hold a direct 20% stake in MTN Rwanda.

The DRC will replace civilian authorities with military administrations in two conflict-hit provinces for a month, the government has said.

Suspected jihadists have killed around 30 people in an attack in eastern Burkina Faso, local and security sources said.

Suspected Fulani herdsmen have killed 17 villagers in two separate attacks in central Nigeria's Benue state, officials said, in the latest violence in the restive region.

The editor of a Congolese satirical weekly critical of President Denis Sassou Nguesso has been convicted of libel and jailed for six months, a rights group said.

Somalia's prime minister has invited regional leaders to a fresh round of negotiations in the hope of resolving a protracted feud over elections that sparked violence in the capital.

Niger troops killed 24 "suspected terrorists' after they sought to escape after being captured in the west of the country, the government said Sunday.

The busiest border crossing in southern Africa will experience six weeks of significant delays as an upgrade begins.

Nigerian jihadists have attacked two army bases in the restive northeast, overrunning one camp and killing at least eight people, military sources have said.

More than 600 migrants hoping to reach Europe from Libya have been stopped since Friday, the navy has said, as the International Organization for Migration warned Libya was "not a safe port".

Nigeria will ban entry to non-Nigerian passengers who have been in Brazil, India or Turkey in the last fortnight due to the spread of coronavirus in those three nations.