At least 69 people, including a local mayor, have been killed in an attack in Niger's volatile "tri-border" zone with Burkina Faso and Mali, the interior ministry said on Thursday.

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed urged citizens to defend themselves against the rebellious forces after reports that they had taken control of two towns.

The move is part of a broader plan to sell about 14% of the parent company’s holding in its largest and most profitable unit.

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The European Union on Wednesday launched a military training mission in Mozambique to help local troops fight a jihadist insurgency in its gas-rich north.

Rescuers in Nigeria on Wednesday raced to find survivors, two days after a high-rise building under construction collapsed and trapped scores of people in the commercial capital Lagos, as the death toll rose to 22, an emergency official said.

In the heyday of the Ein Gedi spa in the 1960s, holidaymakers could marinate in heated pools and then slip into the briny Dead Sea. Now the same beach is punctured by craters.

A report on abuses committed during war in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region will be published on Wednesday, but a spokesperson for the party controlling Tigray said investigators did not visit many sites where violence occurred.

Nigerian rescue crews dug for more survivors in the rubble of a collapsed Lagos high-rise building, a day after the disaster killed at least 15 people and left many more trapped inside.

President Cyril Ramaphosa and King Mswati III have agreed that the SADC Secretariat will work closely with the Eswatini government to draft terms of reference for a national dialogue forum.

The United Nations on Monday accused Democratic Republic of Congo's army of beating to death a human rights activist protesting illegal taxes in the war-torn east of the country.

At least six people have died in Nigeria's commercial capital of Lagos after the collapse of a high-rise building that was under construction, the state emergency services chief said on Tuesday.

Zimbabwe's health ministry has approved the use of China's Sinovac Biotech Covid-19 vaccine for 16- and 17-year-olds, it said , adding that the country aimed to achieve herd immunity by the end of December.

A high-rise building under construction in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos collapsed on Monday, trapping several workers under a pile of concrete rubble, witnesses said.

Kenyan police announced they were reopening a case into the 2012 murder of a young mother last seen with a British soldier from a nearby military base.

Namibia suspended imports of live poultry, birds and poultry products from Germany and the Netherlands on Monday after outbreaks of the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu in the European countries.

The main Central African Republic opposition parties have rejected national dialogue plans announced by President Faustin Archange Touadera as he attempts to end eight years of conflict.

Sudanese anti-coup protesters on Sunday manned barricades in Khartoum a day after a deadly crackdown on mass rallies, as a defiant civil disobedience campaign against the military takeover entered its seventh day.

At least five police officers were killed in Burkina Faso on Sunday in an attack near the border with Mali, security forces have said.

Algeria on Sunday expressed "profound regret" at what it called an unbalanced UN Security Council resolution calling on all sides to resume talks toward a solution in disputed Western Sahara.