Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi's jet was on Friday allowed a safe landing at Geneva Airport in Switzerland, moments before closure due to a fire in a nearby building.

Former Nigeran president Olusegun Obasanjo has secured a diplomatic victory in the Ethiopian civil war, with the transitional government of Tigray committing to release more than 4 000 prisoners of war.

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A prominent Ethiopian general who has been critical of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government was due in court on Friday after being arrested this week, his wife said.

Armed men have kidnapped an Italian couple and their child as well as a Togolese national in southeastern Mali, a local official and a Malian security source told AFP on Friday.

The Zambian Anti-Corruption drive has netted a recently fired high court judge on bribery allegations.

The United States said on Thursday it has determined that "Hotel Rwanda" hero Paul Rusesabagina has been "wrongfully detained" by Kigali, which handed him a 25-year prison term.

Experts say a series of monumental economic mistakes has led to acute unemployment and unethical recruitment in Zimbabwe.

As Europe struggles to decarbonise its economy and wean itself off Russian oil and gas, one of the world's sunniest and most arid nations is pitching itself to the continent as an answer to its problems.

A handful of cases of the virus have now been reported or are suspected in the UK, US, Portugal and Spain.

The civil war, coupled with climate change, disrupted food security, which resulted in more than 5.2 million people in need of food aid, according to United Nations estimates.

Nigerian police said they arrested two suspects behind the kidnapping of students from a Nigerian college last year, one of the most high-profile cases in a recent string of abductions of pupils.

Several outbreaks of monkeypox in Africa have been contained during the Covid-19 pandemic while the world's attention was elsewhere, and outbreaks in Europe and the United States are a concern, Africa's top public health agency said.

The United Nations Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT) has turned its focus on Fulgence Kayishema, a suspected Rwandan genocide perpetrator who it believes is in South Africa.

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.

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.