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Twelve civilians and 38 rebels have died in four days of fighting in northeast DR Congo, where the armed forces are carrying out a crackdown on militias, military and local sources have said.

At the St Joseph Covid Treatment Centre in Kinshasa, patients lie in ramshackle rooms breathing oxygen from old tanks. The clinic has 38 beds, and all but one are occupied.

Somalia's President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed has announced that he was suspending Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble, a day after the two men sparred over long-delayed elections in the troubled Horn of Africa nation.

The captain admitted that the vessel sailed close to the Mauritian shores so that they could get cellphone signals.

Somalia's president, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, has said he had suspended the prime minister’s powers, escalating a destabilising dispute in the Horn of Africa country.

A suicide bomber killed at least five people at a crowded night spot in the city of Beni in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo Saturday, local officials reported.

A bomb exploded inside a restaurant in Beni, a city in the east of Democratic Republic of Congo, the mayor said on local radio.

A military tribunal in the Democratic Republic of Congo has handed a life sentence to four policemen for torturing an alleged car thief to death, trial footage showed.

Kenya will offer Covid-19 booster shots to individuals six months after their initial shots, the health ministry said in a document published on Saturday.

At least six people have been killed in attacks by suspected jihadists in Niger near its border with Burkina Faso, authorities said on Friday.

Mali's government has denied any deployment of Russian mercenaries from the Wagner group following charges by a group of 15 Western powers involved in the fight against jihadists in the Sahel country.

Leopards have been reintroduced to Zinave National Park in Mozambique as part of a rewilding programme.

DR Congo and Ugandan troops have taken two major bases held by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a suspected jihadist group being targeted in a joint offensive, the Congolese army said on Friday.

Uganda has charged 15 people, including a pregnant woman, with terrorism over their alleged role in recent attacks blamed on a rebel group, police said Friday.

A look at the factors that have forced Libya to postpone a vote seen as crucial to end its 10-year-long crisis.

Bloodshed in the hillside villages of Ituri province has accelerated over the past two years, driven by a political-religious sect called CODECO.

Three people died in a plane crash in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's South Kivu province on Thursday, provincial transport minister Alimasi Malumbi Mathieu said.

Rebel fighters in Mozambique are equipped with AK variants - mostly Chinese Type 56, Type 56-1 and Type 56-2 rifles - says Calibre Obscura, an arms research think tank.