Ethiopia's national elections will draw in voters from seven of 10 semi-autonomous regions, highlighting the country's rich history and striking diversity.

Former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo is scheduled to arrive home on Thursday after being cleared of crimes against humanity for violence following the country's 2010 election.

Rising Covid-19 cases in Africa are "especially concerning" because the continent has the least amount of access to vaccines, diagnostics and oxygen, according to World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

A Ugandan military court has released on bail 18 supporters of singer-turned-opposition leader Bobi Wine detained since the start of the year.

Kenya said it will honour Somalia's invitation to restore diplomatic ties and reopen its embassy in Mogadishu.

Zambia's founding father and former president Kenneth Kaunda has been admitted to hospital, his office said Monday.

Lagos-based entrepreneur Ogechi Egemonu was selling more than $1 219 worth of watches, shoes and handbags on Twitter per week.

Algeria was early on Monday still waiting for the results of a parliamentary election boycotted by the long-running Hirak protest movement and marked by widespread abstention.

Zambian leader Edgar Lungu on Sunday suffered an attack of dizziness that prompted a sudden halt to television coverage of an official ceremony in the southern African nation, the cabinet secretary said.

News24 has appointed seasoned journalist Lynsey Chutel to head up its Africa desk.

Two Malian soldiers were killed in an ambush by suspected jihadists in the country's conflict-riven north, military sources said on Sunday.

Algeria on Sunday awaited the results of a parliamentary election boycotted by the long-running Hirak protest movement and marked by widespread abstention.

A machine-gun attack on the home of Seini Oumarou, president of the National Assembly in Niger, killed one of his guards and seriously wounded a second, the authorities have said.

At least two soldiers and a police officer have been killed when their vehicle hit an explosive device in northeast Ivory Coast near the border with Burkina Faso.

More than five million people have contracted the Covid-19 virus in Africa since it emerged in China in late 2019, data compiled by AFP from official sources showed.

Armed cattle thieves have killed 53 people in northwest Nigeria's Zamfara state, police and local residents said, the latest violence to hit the restive region.

A new Central African Republic prime minister was named by presidential decree Friday, the day after the government resigned as the impoverished country struggles with a rebellion and a bustup with its traditional ally France.

Germany's deal with Namibia over the Nama and Herero genocide is facing increasing backlash, particularly from the descendants of the victims.

Almost 10 000 Mozambicans have been forcibly removed from Tanzania so far this year after fleeing a deadly Islamist insurgency in their homeland, a spokesperson for the UN refugee agency said on Friday.

By Mohammed Omer