With more than half its population lacking mains electricity and still using charcoal and other damaging sources for cooking, Africa's energy future — torn between fossil fuels and renewables — is up for grabs.

An attack at a checkpoint in southeast Mali has killed at least five people, including customs officers and civilians, local and military sources have said.

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A policeman has been killed in northeast Tanzania during a clash with Masai herders protesting the cordoning off of land to create a wildlife protection area, an official has said.

Clashes between armed groups erupted in Libya's capital on Friday night, according to local media, as the country reels from a failed coup attempt three weeks ago.

Britain's Prince Charles has called the government's plan to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda "appalling", a report said Saturday after it cleared a legal challenge.

The Rwanda Defence Force says the Democratic Republic of Congo's army has, for the third time in the space of two weeks, bombed Rwandan territory.

The United States says its sanctions on Russia do not affect its food and fertiliser exports to the Global South.

The Namibian Economic Freedom Fighters, which is the Namibian version of the EFF, accused the two heads of state of having a corrupt relationship.

Manuel Chang was a central figure in Mozambique's biggest government corruption scandal, which included senior government employees, ministers and the political elite.

Namibia has started the process of procuring 18 million condoms that could last the country for the next nine months in its battle against HIV/Aids.

While violence is common in the two Anglophone regions, the separatists rarely wage attacks beyond them.

The amendment of the draconian Anti-Terror Bill that critics say will result in media repression is now before Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi for approval.

Amid claims that parents are burying their children along the roadside in Somalia after they died of hunger, the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund has warned that the worst is yet to come.

Zimbabwe's official inflation rate is already above 130% - but real inflation may be double that.

The Democratic Republic of Congo has ordered mobile-phone companies operating in the African nation to pay a levy estimated at about $180 million (R2.8 billion) a year, people with knowledge of the matter said.

A Zimbabwean man who pulled a video prank about being a buyer of human toes has been charged with "criminal nuisance".

Four candidates are in the running to become Kenya's next president, including current deputy president William Ruto and veteran politician Raila Odinga, the electoral body said.

About a year before Zimbabwe's general elections, where President Emmerson Mnangagwa will seek re-election for a second and last term, the country's "insult law" is increasingly being used.

Two Zimbabweans have been killed and one Motswana injured during a shootout with the Botswana Police Service in Gaborone.