Many women have painful periods, but only a handful of countries around the world, mostly in Asia, allow them to take time off work to recover.

Mozambique has detected its first case of wild poliovirus in three decades, following an outbreak in neighbouring Malawi in February, the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced on Wednesday.

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Zambia’s central bank said it refused to pay ransom to a group known as Hive that was behind a cybersecurity breach that caused minimal damage to its systems.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa initially said the lending ban was motivated by the need to defend the local currency from manipulators and market indiscipline.

The national emergency service said the explosion in the northern city led to the collapse of a building and the deaths.

Namibia could destroy at least 330 000 doses of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine by October to add to the 318 000 doses, worth an estimated R27 million, that have already been destroyed since last year.

Africa’s drive to set up a vaccine industry after being left at the back of the queue in the global scramble for Covid-19 shots has stumbled at the first hurdle.

Turn a corner in Mozambique's seaside capital Maputo, and the skyline vanishes. Colonial Portuguese buildings and mid-century modernist apartment blocks give way to a maze of rutted alleys crammed with tin-roofed shacks.

Some of the vegetables banned include tomatoes, garlic, onions, and cabbage.

Nigeria's economic crimes agency said on Monday night it had arrested the country's accountant general over charges of diverting public funds and money laundering to the tune of 80 billion naira ($193 million).

Through the Countering Malign Russian Activities in Africa Act, the US wishes to "hold to account African governments and their officials who are complicit in aiding (Russia's) malign influence and activities".

The head of Nigeria's treasury has been arrested for alleged involvement in fraud and money laundering worth more than R3 billion, the national anti-graft agency said.

President Joe Biden has ordered the reestablishment of a US troop presence in Somalia to help local authorities combat the Al-Shabaab militant group, a senior American official told reporters on Monday.

From Tuesday, Zimbabwean importers won't pay duties on a range of imported basic goods - including rice, cooking oil, sugar, maize meal, milk powder and soap – for the next six months.

The Economist has challenged Ethiopia's Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, to live up to his 2019 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech that "we are creating an Ethiopia that is second to none in its guarantee of freedoms of expression".

Kenya's top two presidential candidates have announced their running mates, with veteran contender Raila Odinga opting for a champion of women's rights and social justice and his rival William Ruto choosing a skilled political campaigner.

Zimbabwe on Monday sought the support of the European Union to sell off $600 million (R9.7 billion) worth of ivory it has accumulated due to the global ban on the sale of tusks.

Rwanda will host the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting from 20 to 26 June having received 50 refugees, deported from the United Kingdom just weeks before the gathering.

The widow of a human rights defender murdered by the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) police in 2010 has called on authorities to track down every single person implicated.