Lesotho says it will hold general elections on 7 October, in the latest round of polling in the landlocked southern African country.

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The United States killed two al-Shabaab miltants in an airstrike on Sunday, the US Africa Command's public affairs section has said in a statement.

Amnesty International has called on the Nigerian authorities to probe the death of seven young men in the country's restive southeast, where separatist tensions are on the rise.

A Catholic priest seized last week in northwestern Nigeria was killed by his abductors while another kidnapped priest escaped, a Christian leader said on Wednesday.

Precious gem producer Gemfields on Wednesday reported an attack close to its ruby mine in Mozambique's northern Cabo Delgado province, but said operations had not been halted.

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Rare twins have been born to a Maasai giraffe in Nairobi's national park, the Kenyan wildlife minister said on Tuesday.

The Democratic Republic of Congo says it will auction rights to drill for oil in more than two dozen areas, including a rainforest region that green groups say should be protected.

Boris Johnson may have resigned as Britain's prime minister but one of his most divisive and controversial policies - the deportation of asylum seekers to Rwanda - could remain as part of his legacy.

Less than a month after the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) ended its 14th Ebola outbreak, Ghana on Sunday declared a Marburg virus outbreak.

A Chinese national accused of racism and exploiting children in Malawi was charged with human trafficking in the capital Lilongwe, local media reported.

A mysterious disease that killed three people in Tanzania has been identified as leptospirosis or "rat fever", a bacterial infection commonly spread by the rodents, the East African nation's government said.

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) will embark on two-day protest on 26 July to demonstrate against an eight-month shutdown of public universities across the country due to pay disagreements between the government and teachers, it said on Sunday.

Two cases of the deadly Marburg virus have been identified in Ghana, the first time the Ebola-like disease has been found in the West African nation, health authorities announced on Sunday.

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa says, as the country reaches the homestretch to general elections next year, he has noted "worrisome" and "meddlesome" tendencies from foreign missions accredited to the country.

Zimbabwe central bank officials plan to meet with retailers on Tuesday over price hikes, the Sunday Mail reported.

When Muhammed Sandeng first learned that his father, political activist Ebrima Solo Sandeng, had been tortured to death at the Gambian national spy agency's headquarters, he felt one emotion above all else.