Suspected jihadists killed around 50 civilians in Burkina Faso, the Eastern region's governor said, in the latest attack in the impoverished Sahel nation.

Eleven newborn babies have perished in a hospital fire blamed on an electrical short circuit in the western Senegalese city of Tivaouane, authorities said.

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The Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) has secured 400 000 metric tons of maize imports from Zambia and Malawi in what it calls "economic diplomacy" as several African countries start to shop around for grain.

The acting director of Africa's top public health agency said that he hoped the vaccine hoarding episode seen during the Covid-19 pandemic will not be repeated with the current monkeypox outbreak.

Yahya Jammeh has been accused of murder, rape, torture and other alleged crimes committed in his more than 20-year rule.

A spike in cholera in Cameroon has killed 140 people since October last year, Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute said on Wednesday.

Eleven newborn babies died in a hospital fire in the western Senegalese city of Tivaouane, the president of the country said late on Wednesday.

The Gambian government said it will prosecute former dictator Yahya Jammeh for murder, rape, torture and other alleged crimes committed under his more than 20-year rule.

Senegal's president and African Union chairman Macky Sall said that when he visits Russia and Ukraine in the coming weeks he will push them to unblock exports of grains and fertilizer to avoid widespread famine.

Rwanda, Ghana, Malawi, Senegal, and Uganda will be the first African countries to benefit from US-based drug manufacturer Pfizer's "An Accord for a Healthier World" initiative to reduce the health inequities that exist in many lower-income countries.

In his Africa Day speech, President Cyril Ramaphosa said Africans were not the enemies of South Africans, adding poverty, crime, unemployment and social exclusion. were.

The Gambian government said Wednesday it is willing to prosecute former dictator Yahya Jammeh for a "myriad of crimes" committed by the regime during his more than 20-year rule.

AU youth ambassadors have marked Africa Day by calling on young people to engage more in promoting accountability through strong institutions, peace, security and health rights for the continent.

At least three people have been beheaded in a new outbreak of Islamist violence in northern Mozambique, police said Wednesday.

Millions of Africans have been pushed into extreme poverty by Covid-19 and face rising costs because of the Ukraine war.

In the open-air kitchen of a small research clinic in Ghana's capital, Accra, pathologist Kafui Akakpo carefully carved a piece of cancerous breast tissue into a sample smaller than a matchbox.

Hacked-off thorn branches encircle two mounds of earth heaped over the tiny bodies of Halima Hassan Abdullahi's twin granddaughters. Babies Ebla and Abdia lived only a day.

The dead bodies of four out of eight missing miners have been found at a zinc mine owned by Trevali Mining Corp in Burkina Faso which flooded on 16 April, the government said on Wednesday.

An uptick in suspected jihadist attacks in western Niger has since January forced more and more people to flee their homes, according to the UN humanitarian agency.