Africa’s air cargo demand is rebounding at record rates but a slow vaccination programme threatens to restrict international passenger numbers.

Zimbabwe is considering the mass killing of elephants, known as culling, for the first time since 1988 to reduce the 100 000-strong population of the animals.

Zambia said a lack of capital halted production at a copper mine it seized from Indian billionaire Anil Agarwal’s Vedanta Resources, just as the metal surges toward a record.

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the record for most surviving babies delivered at one time is eight and is held by Nadya Suleman.

Kidnappers have released the remaining 29 students they were holding captive after abducting them in March from a forestry college in Nigeria's Kaduna state.

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 and its five million residents.

A case of the Indian variant of the coronavirus has been detected in Kenya, the country's health ministry said, a few days after it was also confirmed in neighbouring Uganda.

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.