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Angola's former president Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who ruled Africa's second biggest oil producer for nearly four decades, has died aged 79, the Angolan presidency said on Facebook on Friday.

Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo's first step to mending fences will be through the "Luanda Mechanism" talks, which will get underway on 12 July.

Fresh clashes between M23 rebels and soldiers erupted in eastern DRC on Thursday, officials said, as the militia declared that it was not bound by a ceasefire agreement.

The World Health Organisation has announced the end of the 14th Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. News24 talks to Dr Mory Keita, WHO's incident manager for the Ebola outbreak, about how they managed to end the recent outbreak.

Pfizer will now supply the Covid-19 pill that is highly effective in preventing hospitalisations and deaths.

In 1966, Malawi gained independence from Britain with then-president Hastings Kamuzu Banda, a historically divisive figure, being the only African leader having full diplomatic relations with apartheid South Africa.

Duration Gold, the mining company doing exploration work at the Oppenheimer family's ranch in Zimbabwe, says it's carrying out "game-changing" work in line with the president's aim to build a R192-billion mining industry.

Suspected jihadists using guns and explosives smashed their way into a prison near the Nigerian capital, freeing hundreds of inmates in an operation to release jailed comrades, the government said on Wednesday.

Rwandan President Paul Kagame says, if the diplomatic standoff with his Democratic Republic of Congo counterpart Felix Tshisekedi is not resolved amicably, it could "find me prepared for the worst".

The United Nations on Tuesday made an urgent appeal for funds to help the Central African Republic, which faces a mounting food crisis.

Sudanese protesters held firm on barricades on Tuesday, saying they were deeply sceptical of promises by coup leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan a day earlier that the army would make way for civilian rule.

Climate change experts have welcomed the G7's announcement of a multibillion-dollar investment in infrastructure development in the Global South by 2027, but have questioned whether it is realistic.

Zimbabwe's central bank said it would start selling gold coins this month as a store of value to tame runaway inflation, which has considerably weakened the local currency.

Rwanda's President Paul Kagame said he had "no problem" with his troops being excluded from a proposed regional force for the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.

The Democratic Republic of Congo has declared the end of its 14th Ebola outbreak after less than three months, the World Health Organisation has said.

A new model is expected to increase export volumes by 800 000 tons per year