Islamic State-allied jihadists have attacked a camp housing surrendered rivals from Boko Haram in the country's northeast, the military said on Sunday.

Sweeping raids in Libya targeting mostly irregular migrants left at least one person dead, 15 wounded and 4 000 in detention, the UN said, stressing that authorities must respect human rights.

The Algerian government has banned French military planes from its airspace, the French army said on Sunday, amid a diplomatic crisis sparked by a visa row and reported critical comments from President Emmanuel Macron.

Around 2 500 demonstrators held a show of support Sunday in Tunisia's capital for President Kais Saied whose power grab has stirred controversy in the birthplace of the Arab Spring.

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A local jihadist leader and 18 rebels were killed during a military strike on their base in Mozambique's insurgency-hit north, a bloc of southern African nations said Saturday.

Mauritius fully opened its doors to international visitors, hoping to rebuild its vital tourism industry after long months of isolation because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The UN warned of "unprecedented" malnutrition among pregnant and lactating women in Ethiopia's war-hit Tigray region, in a report published hours after the government sparked outrage by expelling senior UN officials.

A cargo plane delivered four helicopters, weapons and ammunition from Russia to Mali late on Thursday, Malian interim defence minister Sadio Camara said.

Victoria Atieno was waiting at a Nairobi bus stop when she felt blood gush from her body, the result of a secret, self-induced abortion - a method used by thousands of Kenyan women, with potentially fatal consequences.

Clement Chiwaya, 50, killed himself inside the parliament building in Lilongwe.

Somalia's first public oxygen plant opened, in a ray of hope for a country where a lifesaving treatment for the coronavirus has been largely unavailable to patients during the pandemic.

Sudan is making progress as it reconnects with the global economy but patience is needed as the country seeks to tackle shortages and attract investment, the visiting head of the World Bank said on Thursday.

Kenyan judge declares that being a housewife is a full-time job, payable by monthly compensation.

Children's textbooks, utensils, clothing and crops: all lost to rising floodwaters that have forced tens of thousands of people in South Sudan to leave their wrecked homes as overflowing rivers deluge farmland and swallow up livestock.

The latest South African stock exchange opens on Thursday pledging to lure firms from across the continent with listing costs that are a third of that charged by the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.

A Libyan youth leader was abducted by unidentified gunmen after calling for demonstrations in support of scheduled December elections, the UN said, voicing concern for his safety.

Egypt is pushing ahead with a new project to restore historic Cairo, a sprawling but now rapidly crumbling thousand-year-old world heritage site home to many a tale in the Thousand and One Arabian Nights.

The World Health Organization's regional director for Africa said that the agency was "heartbroken" by the findings of an independent commission on sex abuse in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Independent investigators mandated by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to probe allegations of sexual abuse by its staff in the DR Congo cited "clear structural failures" and "individual negligence" in a report released on Tuesday.