Suspected jihadists killed 10 villagers in an attack on a mosque earlier this week in western Niger's Tillaberi region, local sources said.

Police shot a man dead during clashes with a group of commuter bus operators protesting for political reform in the small kingdom of Eswatini, an AFP correspondent witnessed.

The Republic of Congo has announced a 45-day ban on weddings, a move that it said would help to stem the spread of coronavirus.

Seven miners have died and five are missing after a makeshift goldmine collapsed in eastern DR Congo's South Kivu province after heavy rain, local sources said.

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A Namibian court ruled has that the son of a gay couple, born via surrogacy in South Africa in 2019, is a Namibian citizen by descent, in a decision hailed as "big win" for same-sex couples.

The powerful younger brother of deposed late Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika has been sentenced to two years in prison for 'obstructing the course of justice', the official APS news agency has reported.

Matt Hancock, the former UK health secretary whose handling of the pandemic was criticised in a Parliament report this week, was named as the United Nations’ special representative for Africa.

Terrorist groups in Africa have killed and displaced thousands of people, and France has taken the lead among foreign powers trying to combat them.

The top UN court has ruled largely in favour of Somalia in its dispute with Kenya, setting a sea boundary in part of the Indian Ocean believed to be rich in oil and gas.

Botswana's Court of Appeal has started hearing a government attempt to overturn a landmark ruling that decriminalised homosexuality.

The novel coronavirus has killed at least 4 853 570 people since the outbreak emerged in China in December 2019, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP.

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Nigerian police in Lagos have warned against any protests planned to mark the anniversary of the mass #EndSARS rallies that rocked Africa's most populous country a year ago.

Soldiers and police have been deployed across schools in Eswatini where students have been protesting for weeks demanding political reforms, pro-democracy groups said.

A convoy carrying Zimbabwe's main opposition leader was attacked by suspected ruling party supporters, his party said.

Tunisia's President Kais Saied has appointed a new government, 11 weeks after firing the last one in a controversial power grab.

Egyptian authorities arrested three people accused of dumping thousands of unused Covid-19 vaccine jabs found last week in a water drain in a southern city, the public prosecution said.

Lebanon's electricity grid was back online Sunday after the army supplied fuel to two key power stations that had run out, a minister said, ending almost a day of total blackout.

A Franciscan nun from Colombia kidnapped by jihadists in Mali more than four years ago has been freed, Mali's presidency said.