Five people were killed during a crackdown by Sudanese security forces on nationwide protests against military rule on Dec. 30, a doctors' committee said on Friday.

A South African-registered car with a tracker helped police in Zimbabwe hunt down an armed seven-member gang.

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Nearly 4 000 Mozambicans have fled their villages in a month due to intensifying jihadist attacks in Niassa, a province neighbouring insurgency hotbed Cabo Delgado, a government official said Friday.

Mali's army said eight soldiers died during an attack in a western area of the Sahel nation where jihadist forces operate, doubling the previous toll.

Dozens of civilians were reportedly killed last week in a barrage of air strikes in Ethiopia's conflict-wracked northernmost Tigray region, the highest casualties recorded since October, the UN's emergency-response agency said on Thursday.

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.

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.