Mozambican security forces are preventing tens of thousands of civilians displaced by jihadist attacks around the northern town of Palma from moving to safer areas, Human Rights Watch said Friday.

Rebel forces from Ethiopia's war-torn Tigray on Friday rebuffed US calls to leave neighbouring regions, one day after they seized famed UNESCO heritage site Lalibela.

"I had never been so devastated and I cried at the embarrassment," Tabitha Chawinga told The Guardian.

Nigerian forces have killed 78 gunmen, known locally as bandits, during military operations including air strikes in northwestern Zamfara state, the air force said.

The head of the African Union's health watchdog John Nkengasong revealed on Thursday that he was battling Covid-19 but had survived the worst thanks to his jabs, as he urged the continent to fight vaccine hesitancy.

After a slight dip in cases last week, Covid-19 cases are surging again, says the World Health Organisation. More than half of African countries are experiencing a third wave, while four are in the grip of a fourth one.

African Union officials said on Thursday that the body had begun shipping Covid-19 vaccine doses acquired from Johnson & Johnson.

Three young children were killed by lions near Tanzania's world-renowned Ngorongoro wildlife reserve as they went to look for lost cattle, police said on Thursday.

MTN sees the investment risk starting to outweigh the benefits, said the people, who asked to remain anonymous as the deliberations are not public.

Amnesty says it documented at least 115 killings by security forces this year in restive southeastern states.

The doctors' union in Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday called off a three-week-old strike over pay that had brought hospitals to a near standstill during the country's third wave of coronavirus.

Zimbabwe will clear a backlog of foreign currency allocations owed from central bank-run auctions in the next 45 days, a senior treasury official said on Wednesday, with traders and businesses estimating around $200 million is outstanding.

Rwandahas sent 300 troops to reinforce United Nations peacekeepers in the Central African Republic, where they will help protect a key highway supplying the capital, the UN said.

South Africans still aren’t allowed to enter the United Arab Emirates, even if they’re fully vaccinated.

Cabinet backs draft bill to join founding treaty of ICC, but the decision needs sovereign council approval.

A proliferation of pirate attacks in the Gulf of Guinea, an expanse of the Atlantic Ocean stretching from Senegal to Angola, is driving a security-boat building boom in South Africa.

Thirty-seven people were killed and several others injured when a bus collided with a lorry in central Mali during heavy rain, the government and local officials said.

At least 16 people were knifed to death weeks after being taken hostage in the Democratic Republic of Congo's east, in bloodletting blamed on armed Islamists, military and local sources say.

ABUJA, Aug 3 - Nigeria's communications commission said on Tuesday MTN Nigeria's application to renew its operating licence for another ten years was still undergoing regulatory processing.

UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet voiced her concerns about the political turmoil in Tunisia in a phonecall with the foreign minister, and offered her assistance if required, a spokeswoman said on Tuesday.