Last year, insurgents in Mozambique beheaded a pastor and instructed his wife to take his head to the police with a message: "While you [government forces] are walking on tarred roads, real men [insurgents] are in the woods."

The families of six youths found dead in police custody in Congo-Brazzaville in 2021 are suing the state for damages, a rights group supporting them said on Friday.

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Lesotho's Mounted Police Service stands accused of detaining and torturing Napo Mafaesa, a human rights lawyer, after a client of his allegedly lied that he handed over an illegal firearm to the advocate for safekeeping.

Ethiopia has asked the UN health agency to investigate its chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus for "harmful misinformation" and "misconduct", accusing him of backing rebels in his native war-torn Tigray region.

"The insurgency is not yet neutralised. The violent extremists are regrouping, launching attacks from several parts of Cabo Delgado and they are also expanding to neighbouring province Niassa where they have launched significant attacks."

Startups in Nigeria are helping fight counterfeit pharmaceutical drugs in Africa's most populous nation, where the prevalence rate of fake drugs is higher than the global average 10% and contributes to several deaths annually.

Botswana's Independent Electoral Commission will for the next three months conduct a supplementary voter registration exercise.

Africa's top public health body said it was in talks with Pfizer about securing supplies of its antiviral Covid-19 pills for the continent, the latest to join the race for a drug seen as a potential game changer in fighting the virus.

Burkina Faso's revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara, who was gunned down during a coup in 1987, was shot at least seven times by assassins using tracer rounds, experts have told a long-awaited trial into his killing.

Gunmen attacked a mainly Christian village in a volatile Nigeria state, killing as many as 18 people and burning down two dozen homes, a community leader, a resident and local authorities said on Wednesday.

Nigeria lifted a seven-month ban on Twitter in the West African country, after the social network agreed to various conditions.

Nigeria's government on Wednesday said it had ended its suspension of Twitter, seven months after banning the social media giant in a dispute over a tweet by President Muhammadu Buhari.

Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) chief John Mangudya has been classified among the worst central bank governors, according to rankings by Global Finance magazine, in sharp contrast to South Africa’s Lesetja Kganyago.

Authorities say the alleged plot was uncovered after ‘a member of the gang’ denounced the plan.

Pressure on Mali's junta increased on Tuesday as France and the United States underlined their support for the West African bloc ECOWAS, which has slapped sanctions on the country over delayed elections following two coups.

The Malawian president and Southern African Development Community chairperson, Dr Lazarus Chakwera, has urged member states to support the Cabo Delgado reconstruction plan.

A car bomb exploded on a road leading to the airport in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, killing at least eight people, the head of the city's ambulance services said.

Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Wednesday that China would be donating another 10 million doses of its Covid-19 vaccine over the course of 2022.

President Cyril Ramaphosa says credit should go to the SADC Standby Mission in Mozambique for neutralising terrorism in the Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado.