With drums, dancing and tears, Benin on Wednesday welcomed back nearly 30 royal treasures looted from the West African state during France's colonial rule more than 130 years ago.

An explosive device has wounded at least 11 university students when it was thrown on to the roof of a lecture hall in a part of western Cameroon.

Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi on Wednesday sacked defence minister Jaime Neto, without giving a reason or announcing a replacement.

A government situational report on the insurgency in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, has revealed that just after midnight on 2 November, 15 individuals armed with an AK-47 and machetes raided homes in the village of Mahipa in the south.

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Mozambique's former finance minister Manuel Chang, jailed in South Africa since 2018, will be extradited to the US, the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg ruled.

US President Joe Biden has invited 100 heads of states from across the globe for a virtual two-day roundtable which will be held in December.

A Zimbabwean judge has thrown out a case against a couple who shared a photoshopped nude of the country's president on a WhatsApp group, their lawyer has said.

One Burkina Faso soldier and around 15 jihadists have died in fighting, the army of the west African nation has said.

Nigeria's elite sipped champagne and splashed thousands of dollars on contemporary paintings at a fair in Lagos this week, an early step into the international art world for Africa's most populous nation.

Botswana is moving ahead to ring-fence business activities for locals, including businesses ranging from bread and confectionery to furniture. An economics lecturer believes taxing foreigners more could work better than blocking them.

For the first time, three prison inmates in Tunisia were allowed a brief taste of freedom for the sake of art.

Proudly displaying her freshly picked pomegranates, Tunisian farmer Sarah Shili says going organic is "the future of farming" -- and as demand surges in North Africa and beyond, the sector is blooming.

Hakim Alileche left a successful career in graphic design and moved to the Algerian countryside to produce "magic potion" -- organic olive oil that has won him international recognition.

Pro-democracy protesters have prepared to launch two more days of civil disobedience against Sudan's military coup, as Arab League mediators arrived in Khartoum.

Ninety-one people were killed in the capital of Sierra Leone on Friday when a fuel tanker exploded following a collision, the central morgue and local authorities said.

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.

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.