The head of Sudan's ruling council General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has said that no fixed date had been set for elections, but the military would not wait forever.

One person has been killed in a fresh air strike on Ethiopia's rebel-held Tigray the region's biggest hospital has said, capping a month of renewed clashes between pro-government forces and Tigrayan fighters.

Uganda has confirmed seven cases of Ebola including in a man who died this week, and seven other deaths are being investigated as suspected cases of a strain for which the authorities do not yet have a vaccine, officials said.

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A Burkina Faso court has found three former presidential guards guilty of involvement in the 1990 murder of a student leader, and sentenced them to terms of 10 to 30 years in prison.

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has criticised fellow leaders who extend term limits to cling to power, saying this was having a "corrosive" effect, and promised free and fair elections when the country elects his successor.

Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi has accused Rwanda of direct aggression, renewing charges as he addressed the United Nations.

The leader of Tunisia's Islamist-inspired Ennahdha party has been questioned through the night by counter-terrorism police over alleged complicity in the departure of jihadist militants for Syria and Iraq.

Equatorial Guinea has abolished the death penalty after the country's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo signed a new penal code into law.

Tunisia's anti-terrorism police have detained for one day Ali Laarayedh, a former prime minister and senior official in the Islamist opposition Ennahda party, after an investigation into suspicions of sending jihadists to Syria.

Twenty-three women members of a Zambian church died on Monday when their speeding vehicle ran off the road in the north of the country, police said.

Government contractors are contesting last month’s decision by Zimbabwe’s Treasury to halt payments on the grounds that they were overcharging for goods and services.

Hundreds of students blocked the main airport road in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos on Monday to protest against the disruption to classes caused by a lecturers' strike that has been going on for more than seven months.

Tunisia's Islamist opposition leader and speaker of the dissolved parliament Rached Ghannouchi has appeared at a Tunis police station to answer questions over what his party has said are accusations relating to terrorism.

Ahmed Al-Najdi calls on the Egyptian authorities to release three of his colleagues still in detention.

Five priests, a nun and two churchgoers were kidnapped by attackers who set fire to a church in western Cameroon, the Catholic Church said on Sunday, the latest violence in an area hit by bloody conflict between anglophone separatists and the state.

Mounds of waste scattered along roads and vast landfills are a Nigerian eyesore.

Africa's over-reliance on Ukraine and Russia for food importation means that the food crisis will get worse. African nations must prioritise food sovereignty, writes Olakunle Mohammed.

Fifteen people died in a mini-bus accident in central Guinea, local authorities said.

Hundreds of Boko Haram jihadists have fled a forest enclave in northeast Nigeria, escaping air strikes by the military and floods from torrential rains to seek shelter on Niger's side of Lake Chad, sources told AFP.