A line of snaking trucks and impatient sedans around Peacevale on the N3, where police stood guard as clean-up teams poured sand over the fiery remnants of protests, was the only snag to our road trip on Friday.

Nigeria expects to receive nearly 8 million additional doses of Covid-19 vaccines by the end of August, including from a US government donation, the head of its primary care agency said on Tuesday.

Prosecutors in the Democratic Republic of Congo have issued an arrest warrant for former Prime Minister Matata Ponyo Mapon over allegations he misappropriated $140 million, two government sources said.

Zimbabwe is aiming to vaccinate 1 million people against Covid-19 in the next two weeks, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Tuesday as he extended tough lockdown measures by another 14 days.

The death toll in the partial collapse of a budget hotel in China's eastern city of Suzhou on Monday has risen to 17, state media said on Wednesday.

Cuba has restricted access to social media and messaging platforms including Facebook and WhatsApp, global internet monitoring firm NetBlocks said on Tuesday, in the wake of the biggest anti-government protests in decades.

Aerial footage showed mobs ransacking and setting ablaze shopping malls and buildings in cities across SA on Tuesday.

"We never thought we would one day need to work with soldiers guarding us. These are things we would see happening in other African countries but it has become a need," a Soweto nurse said.

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President Joe Biden, under pressure from US civil rights leaders, on Tuesday called it a "national imperative" to pass sweeping voting rights legislation that has stalled in Congress, but he did not outline a path to overcome Republican opposition.

On Tuesday morning, business owners at Soweto’s Diepkloof Mall awoke to their offices and workplaces ransacked and severely damaged.

Staff and pharmaceutical shortages, temporary closures and treating patients for protest-related injuries are further pressures on an already constrained healthcare system in SA.

Reports on social media early on Wednesday suggested Afrox’s facilities in Durban had been hit by violent protests.

Forces in Ethiopia's Tigray pushed deeper into land claimed by neighbouring Amhara region on Tuesday, prompting its leaders - allies of the central government - to urge local militia to arm themselves and mobilise.

One of the Haitian American men arrested on suspicion of taking part in the assassination of Haiti's president last week had a prior relationship with a US law enforcement agency, a US government source said on Monday.

More than 600 retail and liquor stores have been damaged, and in some cases destroyed, says the Beer Association of SA.

The Jacob Zuma Foundation on Tuesday night refuted a media report claiming a "high powered delegation" was to meet the former president in prison to negotiate his release.

Gauteng premier David Makhura said on Tuesday the looting and violence in the province are out of control.

'Just as prosthetic limbs help the disabled with their mobility, so too can technology be created to address the imperfections of the human body. Our task is to figure out how.'

SA farmers have been hit by days of unrest and looting as trucks carrying produce are prevented from delivering to markets and threatening food supplies, industry officials said.

The World Health Organization says while ginger, black pepper and honey do have properties beneficial to one's health, there is no evidence these work against the coronavirus.

Sporadic looting in Gauteng seemed to have cooled down on Tuesday evening.

The terrifying sound of explosions could be heard  in Durban on Wednesday morning as a blaze raged on Queen Nandi Drive.

Sporadic violence and incidents of looting continued throughout areas in Gauteng on Monday night. Businesses in Soweto’s Diepkloof Mall awoke to their businesses ransacked and severely damaged.

'We are saying no to the barbaric behaviour of looting,' Diepsloot Residents' Association secretary Akim Zulu said.

Live updates on the riots and looting in South Africa.

'This time is bad. We aren't safe to walk around the streets. Looters are even looting from each other,' a resident of Berea, Johannesburg, said.

Coronavirus updates.

The NPA has been instructed to oppose bail for anyone arrested for being part of looting and rioting in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng.

Icasa said it had received reports of vandalism of communications infrastructure, including 113 network towers.