DR Congo's presidential election is over a year away, but political tensions are escalating in the vast and volatile country as candidates line up and fears grow the vote will be fraudulent.

In its latest report, Cabo Ligado, a conflict observing entity, said that in the first two weeks of May, Islamic Extremists in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province went into hiding after heavy defeats.

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Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa blames the recent xenophobic attacks in South Africa on "long colonialism" describing it as "a racialised war of black African underdogs".

President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda has blamed an "undisciplined opposition" for a surge in Covid-19 cases in the country.

The Anambra state governor has put up a 10 million naira ($24,000) reward for information on the killers.

At least nine media workers in Ethiopia's northern Amhara region have been arrested by local authorities, their employers said on Monday, as rights activists warned of a sweep of unlawful detentions.

Senegalese President Macky Sall on Sunday said he would travel to Russia and Ukraine soon on behalf of the African Union, whose presidency he currently holds.

A top UN official on Sunday accused the M23 militia force active in the Democratic Republic of Congo of attacking peacekeepers in the troubled east of the country.

Africa's foreign press body said using images of Black people in reports on the monkeypox outbreak in the UK and US perpetuates negative stereotypes.

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.

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.