Zambia's newly-elected President Hakainde Hichilema on Sunday appointed new military chiefs and replaced all police commissioners after promising to end the previous regime's heavy-handedness.

Walk down any commercial street in the Libyan capital Tripoli and the pavements will be lined with generators ready to spring into action whenever the mains electricity supply cuts out.

Nineteen civilians in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo were burned and hacked to death on Friday by Ugandan Islamist rebels, a local official said on Saturday.

A Chadian military-political rebel group behind this year's deadly insurgency said on Friday it was prepared to take part in a national dialogue proposed by transitional president Mahamat Idriss Deby.

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A series of large methane plumes were detected by satellite near oil and gas fields, processing plants and pipelines in Algeria, which is among the world’s top emitters of the potent greenhouse gas.

Zimbabwe's biggest workers' union has taken the state and several firms to court for insisting that employees must be inoculated against Covid-19 before reporting for work.

Zambia's new president, Hakainde Hichilema, is turning the nation’s economic fortunes around barely a week into the job.

Former DR Congo health minister Eteni Longondo was detained on Friday over the alleged misappropriation of funds allocated to the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, official sources said.

Nigerian gunmen have freed 32 more students kidnapped in July from a Baptist school in northwest Kaduna state, a church leader and family representative said on Friday.

Mozambique’s former finance minister will spend at least three more weeks in a South African prison after the hearing was postponed to September.

Uganda has said it had foiled a suicide bomb attack against the state funeral of a top police and army commander who led a major African Union offensive against al-Shabaab.

Nigerian gunmen have freed the remaining pupils from more than 100 kidnapped from an Islamic seminary in northwestern Niger State nearly three months ago.

A group of Mozambican civil society organisations approached the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg to overturn minister Ronald Lamola’s order to hand former finance minister Manuel Chang over to Mozambican authorities.

Nine people, including two Chinese, were killed and two others injured after a crane collapsed at a construction site in Kenya's capital Nairobi, police said.

The World Health Organization's pandemic programme plans to ship 100 million doses of the Sinovac and Sinopharm Covid-19 shots by the end of next month, mostly to Africa and Asia, in its first delivery of Chinese vaccines, a WHO document shows.

The two groups and Saudi Arabia decry the diplomatic rift and ask the North African rivals to resolve the conflict.

South African companies are being hit by Nigerian regulatory woes and an analyst says it is time for the SA government to act.

Ethiopian authorities have postponed polls in around a fifth of the country's constituencies, extending a months-long delay which prevented citizens from voting in a June election due to ethnic violence and logistical problems.

Attackers shot dead at least 36 people and destroyed buildings in a night raid on a village near the central Nigerian city of Jos, officials said, in an area hit by repeated ethnic clashes.