Seven Niger police officers and four soldiers were killed on Tuesday in two separate attacks near the country's borders with Burkina Faso and Libya, the government said on Wednesday.

South Africa's military chief said Wednesday that multinational forces had been able to "disrupt" jihadist rebels in northern Mozambique since their deployment there last year.

Inna Koviao Hengari, from the Popular Democratic Movement, said a salary cut for the Namibian president would be an act of good faith.

Ivory Coast Prime Minister Patrick Achi tabled his resignation and that of his government on Wednesday, President Alassane Ouattara said during a cabinet meeting during which he accepted the resignation without providing further detail.

Malawi received 1.9 million oral cholera vaccine doses for the first round of its vaccination drive after cholera was detected in areas affected by floods in March.

The Inter-Parliamentary Union says it will send an observer team to Eswatini to check on the human rights situation of two of the kingdom's legislators who were arrested nine months ago on allegations of terrorism.

At least 154 people were killed in Sunday's attack by gunmen on villages in Nigeria's northern Plateau state, more than three times the initial count, two community leaders said.

US Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa David Satterfield will step down from his role before summer, sources familiar with the matter said on Tuesday, after less than six months on the job and at a time of persistent politi

Detoh Rie has spent the last five days hiding in a swamp with his children - one among thousands of South Sudanese forced to flee their homes as renewed violence threatens to return the fragile nation to war.

Egypt's state-appointed human rights council has urged prosecutors to investigate whether an economic researcher, who authorities say died in a state mental health facility last month, was a victim of forced disappearance.

Gunmen have killed over 100 people after ransacking a group of villages in central Nigeria, local sources said, in one of worst attacks this year blamed on heavily armed criminal gangs who terrorise parts of the country.

Survivors' stories are contained in a report by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International titled "We Will Erase You from this Land" which has largely been condemned by the Ethiopian government.

Millions of people in Somalia are at risk of famine, with young children the most vulnerable to the worsening drought in the troubled Horn of Africa nation, UN agencies warned on Tuesday.

The family of one of Egypt's most prominent human rights activists, Alaa Abd el-Fattah, said on Monday he had obtained British citizenship as part of a campaign to win his release from prison and spotlight the plight of fellow detainees.

A Colombian researcher has been trampled to death by an elephant in Kibale National Park in western Uganda, the country's national parks authority said on Monday.

At least 60 people have been killed in the space of a week in Ituri, one of the 25 provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), by assailants who looted homes and shops.

Protesters commemorate ex-leader’s overthrow with protests against current government that grabbed power after a coup.

The World Food Programme in Ethiopia says, by Friday last week, an estimated 200 000 people in parts of Amhara had received food aid since the mini-truce took effect.

Gunmen who carried out a high-profile attack on a train in northwest Nigeria last month have released a video showing about two dozen of the hostages they kidnapped in the assault.

In January MTN revealed that MTN Nigeria's mobile money service had clocked 9.4 million active users since launching in August 2019