The Rwandan government said on Wednesday it was still committed to taking in asylum seekers sent by the UK under a controversial deal after a first flight was cancelled following a European court ruling.

A first flight carrying asylum seekers to Rwanda as part of a controversial UK policy was cancelled on Tuesday in an embarrassing blow to Prime Minister Boris Johnson government.

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Kenya's government has expressed its regret over the presence of the flag of Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia, at a diplomatic function after an angry Mogadishu accused Nairobi of violating its sovereignty.

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The environment ministry says 11 black rhinos were recently killed and their horns removed.

The European Court of Human Rights confirmed it had issued an order preventing the deportation of one individual due to be on the first flight of migrants from Britain to Rwanda due to depart hours later.

At least seven people have died in a spate of jihadist-related violence in northern Mozambique, local sources said, as the UN said 10 000 people had fled their homes.

In one of Uganda's poorest and most lawless regions, anxious mothers clutch bone-thin infants in a malnutrition ward, terrified their child could be next to succumb to starvation in Karamoja.

There’s something inherently sinister in swanning into a village somewhere in Africa, tossing a few coins at people less privileged than you and being able to instruct them to do whatever you want.

Rwanda's genocide survivors on Tuesday hailed a UN tribunal's decision to put Felicien Kabuga on trial, after his lawyers failed to halt proceedings against the 87-year-old on health grounds.

The Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday accused Rwanda of an "invasion" after rebels it says receive support from Kigali overran a major trading post on the Ugandan border.

A soldier with the SADC Mission in Mozambique has been killed and six others have been injured when the mission's forces raided insurgents in the gas-rich Cabo Delgado Province.

Rwanda has accused the UN mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, known by its French acronym MONUSCO, of "taking sides" and supporting Kinshasa as relations between the neighbours plummet.

In a move that rights activists say is a violation of the Maasai people's indigenous rights, Tanzania is forcibly removing groups of Maasai from their ancestral land in Loliondo, a part of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.

Gunmen kidnapped 30 wedding guests in northwest Nigeria over the weekend, two sources said, the latest in a surge of mass abductions hitting the region.

Gemfields says the attack was 65km from the Montepuez Ruby Mining Limitada operations, in which it has a 75% stake. MRM is believed to be the most significant recently discovered ruby deposit in the world.

The Zimbabwe Republic Police pleaded with politicians not to stoke the fire of an already volatile environment following the murder of opposition activist Moreblessing Ali.

The Skeleton Coast in northern Namibia is home to brown hyenas, also known as strand wolves.