On the site of a luxury shopping centre under construction in Nigeria's economic capital Lagos, a young builder steps gingerly along the top of bamboo scaffolding. Barefoot, with no rope to protect him.

Gunmen killed up to 15 soldiers in an attack on a military outpost in a remote part of south west Niger where Islamist militants operate, officials and security sources said.

Nigerian security forces on Friday rescued six people who had been seized at a university near the capital's international airport, police said.

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African and Western nations called for an immediate ceasefire in Ethiopia on Thursday after Tigrayan forces from the country's North said they made advances towards the capital this week.

A ground-breaking vaccine against malaria has stoked hopes in Africa of rolling back a disease that claims hundreds of thousands of lives a year, many of them youngsters.

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.

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.