Mali has asked private Russian companies to boost security, Russia's foreign minister has confirmed, as the Malian leader accused France of abandoning the conflict-ridden country.

A former Rwandan army colonel who was accused of masterminding the slaughter of 800 000 people during the 1994 genocide has died in prison in Mali, Malian officials have said.

Sudan is in talks with protesters to lift a port blockade that has halted the shipment of South Sudanese oil and threatens the two nations’ economies.

Libya's best chance of peace in years is at risk of unravelling as factions tussle over looming national elections that were envisaged as a way to end a decade of chaotic division.

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Several thousand Libyans packed a Tripoli square late on Friday for a state-funded mass wedding celebration that also drew supporters of transitional Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah and protesters against the eastern-based parliament.

A jailed Tunisian member of parliament who went on a hunger strike to protest military trials of civilians has been released, his wife said on Thursday.

Namibia has detected a new strain of foot-and-mouth disease in the country that has infected thousands of cattle, the agriculture minister said in a statement.

The African Union's health watchdog has warned that Britain's pandemic travel restrictions could make people across the continent more reluctant to get vaccinated.

More than 30 people have died because a health workers' strike in Guinea-Bissau has paralysed the healthcare system.

Tunisian President Kais Saied has put in place special measures for wielding legislative and executive power, the presidency said, without elaborating.

Tunisian lawmaker Seifeddine Makhlouf, an outspoken critic of President Kais Saied, has been re-arrested, for "undermining the dignity of the army".

The United States has condemned the coup attempt in Sudan and warned against 'external interference', as the nation transitions to democracy.

Around 300 protesters stormed Namibia's parliament, as the National Assembly was due to vote on a $1 billion compensation offer from Germany to atone for its genocide against the Herero and Nama people.

BP's traders lost $100 million in a "debacle" of a deal with a West African commodities firm, according to details from a London employment lawsuit that offers a rare glimpse into the business on the oil giant’s trading floor.

New report shows how Covid-19 has had a disproportionate socioeconomic impact on Africa’s most populous country.

Egypt's Mohammed Hussein Tantawi, who headed the military junta that ruled after president Hosni Mubarak's ouster in the Arab Spring protests, has died at age 85.

Sudan's fragile transitional government has said it foiled an attempted coup involving military officers and civilians linked to the ousted regime of long-time president Omar al-Bashir.

In a bid to drum up investor appetite for rough, natural diamonds, mining company Lucara Diamond Corp and manufacturer HB Antwerp have unveiled a 1 175-carat diamond in New York City.

The cuts followed disruptions to supply chains, continuing supply and demand shocks, and a drop in consumer confidence.