Mali has asked France for a review of bilateral defence accords against the backdrop of growing tensions between Paris and the ruling junta in Bamako, a French diplomat said Monday.

Kenya's highest court began on Tuesday weighing a legal bid to revive government plans to shake up the country's political system, just months ahead of crucial elections.

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Sudanese forces opened fire killing seven protesters on Monday in one of the deadliest recent mass rallies against a military coup, with UN Security Council members urging Khartoum to exercise the "utmost restraint".

"If I work for a year [in the UK], I will likely make more than I ever made in 23 years working as a teacher in Zim. I really love teaching, it's my calling but my family can't eat that. If by any chance things change, perhaps under a new government ...

At least 15 people have died in separate attacks by armed groups in DR Congo's troubled northeastern province of Ituri, local sources and monitors said on Monday.

Tanzania and Burundi have signed an agreement to construct a $900 million railway line linking the two countries and are looking for financial backers for the project, Tanzania's finance ministry said in a statement issued late on Sunday.

The hero of "Hotel Rwanda" failed to appear in a Kigali court on Monday as State prosecutors sought to increase his sentence on terrorism charges from 25 years to life.

Two people have died and two others were injured in a collapse at French nuclear group Orano's COMINAK uranium mine in Niger, COMINAK said in a statement on Sunday.

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.

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.