An Islamic State-linked group killed around 40 civilians this week in a northern region of Mali that has been plagued by clashes between rival jihadist groups, local sources told AFP.

An explosion has killed at least 17 people in Nigeria's southwestern Ogun state, after a vehicle collided with a fuel tanker on a busy highway, emergency services said.

Malawi has declared a polio outbreak after a case was detected in a young child in the capital Lilongwe, the first case of wild poliovirus in Africa in more than five years, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.

Xylitol, a sugar substitute normally used in gum and which is prescribed for dental hygiene purposes, can also reduce chances of preterm births, a study that was conducted in Malawi has revealed.

Fighting in northern Ethiopia's Afar region has "engulfed" a camp housing refugees from neighbouring Eritrea, the UN said on Friday, killing five and forcing thousands to flee.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday that six African countries - Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Tunisia - would be the first on the continent to receive the technology needed to produce mRNA vaccines.

The President of the European Union Commission has urged the European Union and African Union to work towards economic and social dynamism for the two continents.

Former Mozambican head of state Armando Guebuza, 79, warned the Machava maximum prison makeshift court in Maputo not to undermine state secrecy, when he took the stand during the "hidden debt" scandal trial on Thursday.

An estimated 13 million children were affected by the closure of 5 500 schools at the end of 2021 in the Sahel region, according to the Norwegian Refugee Council in its latest report.

Libyans on Thursday mark 11 years since the revolt that toppled dictator Moamer Kadhafi, but the democracy many hoped for seems as elusive as ever, and many fear a return to conflict.

France and its European partners involved in the fight against Islamist militants in Mali have decided to start the coordinated withdrawal of their military resources in the country, a joint statement said on Friday.

The governments of Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Namibia this week announced new Covid-19 regulations for travellers as they opened up their land borders.

A bus crash on a highway in central Sudan has killed at least 10 people and left dozens injured, authorities said.

Southern African heads of state and their representatives have started arriving in Brussels, Belgium, for the 6th European Union-African Union Summit with high hopes for their respective countries.

When Somalia's biggest bomb blast killed more than 500 people in 2017, Dr. Ahmed Abdikadir Mohamed watched helplessly as many of the injured bled to death.

All eyes will be on Mozambique's former president Armando Guebuza when he takes the stand on Thursday as the 17th witness in a case on hidden debt involving R32 billion.

Nigeria's state-run oil company said it had started a 24-hour distribution of petrol to service stations to end a week-long scarcity that has caused traffic snarls in major cities.

Al Shabaab militants attacked several police stations and security checkpoints in Somalia's capital Mogadishu early on Wednesday, officials and the militants said, a show of force as the nation prepares for a much-delayed preside

Mozambique will remove a seventh grade natural science textbook from schools after outrage on social media over content that discussed masturbation and homosexuality, the education ministry said Tuesday.

Work is underway to expand the two-way section of the Suez canal to 82 km from 72 km, the chairperson of the authority managing the Egyptian waterway said on Tuesday.