Three Tanzanian peacekeepers were injured on Thursday when their vehicle struck an explosive device in the western part of the Central African Republic, according to the local UN mission, MINUSCA.

Sudanese security forces shot dead four people during a crackdown on nationwide protests on Thursday, a doctors' committee said, as tens of thousands of people marched against military rule.

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The kwacha has advanced 27% against the dollar this year, largely on the back of optimism over the August election victory of Hakainde Hichilema.

The Famine Early Warning Systems Network said more than 20 million people in Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya will need urgent humanitarian food assistance in 2022.

French car manufacturer Citroen withdrew on Thursday an advertisement featuring Egyptian singer Amr Diab after it sparked widespread accusations of promoting the harassment of women.

Somalia's al Shabaab fighters attacked a town north of the capital Mogadishu on Thursday, killing at least seven people as they fought government security forces, a police officer and residents said.

Four Malian soldiers were killed and around a dozen others were wounded when they were attacked in the west of the county, the army said on Thursday.

The United Nations and other countries are in talks with Somalia's prime minister and president to urge them to reduce tensions in their political feud that has fed fears of a military clash, officials said on Wednesday.

Only eight districts, of the 17 that make up the terror-stricken Cabo Delgado in Mozambique, have operational schools.

A member of the Kenyan parliament was hurt in the eye on Wednesday when another lawmaker hit him during a scuffle on the floor of the house.

Botswana experienced a spate of murder cases between Christmas Eve and Boxing Day, most of which were alcohol-related.

Rebels from Ethiopia's Tigray region are drawing on early Islamic history in an Arabic-language propaganda push to rally solidarity among Muslims online for their battle against the government.

An earthquake of magnitude 5.7 struck Crete, Greece, on Wednesday, the country's Geodynamic Institute said.

At least eight injured people taken to local hospital after shafts collapsed at the Darsaya mine in West Kordofan.

Automatic weapons fire crackled out, and Captain Miraj, a Bangladeshi peacekeeper, told everyone to run.

Egypt has "digitally unwrapped" the mummy of famed Pharaoh Amenhotep I, revealing its secrets for the first time since it was discovered in 1881 without disturbing his funerary mask.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has eradicated a four-month meningitis outbreak at a time when national resources have been stretched due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Somalia's allies expressed alarm over the intensifying row between the country's president and prime minister as heavily armed factions patrolled parts of Mogadishu on Tuesday, raising fears that the political crisis could erupt into violence.

This year, there were four successful military takeovers across the continent, up from one in 2021.