UN says a child is being admitted for medical treatment for malnutrition every minute in Somalia as drought worsens.

A second attempt is under way to convene talks in South Africa to end the hostilities in Ethiopia's Tigray region, but fighting seems to be intensifying.

Ahead of next year's elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo, researchers have said they were concerned the process had got off to "a bad start" and warned of the risk of "violent protests".

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Tigrayan rebels have said that Ethiopian and Eritrean forces had taken control of the strategic city of Shire in north-western Tigray.

A crackdown by authorities in Zimbabwe to support the local currency and fight inflation has increased the use of US dollars in the economy, according to the country’s oldest brokerage.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa declared that next year Zimbabwe would 'hold elections in the full glare of world attention'.

Media groups asked Uganda's top court on Monday to scrap a new digital communications law which they said broke the constitution and crippled free speech.

The Serum Institute of India plans to manufacture 20 000 to 30 000 doses of an experimental Ebola vaccine by the end of November for use in trials against an outbreak in Uganda, its developers and a company source said.

The biggest challenge to the public health system in Africa is underinvestment, says Amanda McClelland, senior vice-president of Prevent Epidemics at Resolve to Save Lives.

Ethiopia's government on Monday recommitted to peace talks over Tigray but did not address African Union appeals for a ceasefire, vowing instead to carry out "defensive measures" including seizing airports and other federal facilities in the region.

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The chair of the African Union on Sunday called on those involved in the two-year-old conflict in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region to implement an immediate, unconditional ceasefire and agree to direct peace talks.

Health ministry reports 19 deaths and 58 confirmed cases since the outbreak was first reported on 20 September.

Thousands of Tunisians have demonstrated in the capital Tunis, denouncing a power grab by President Kais Saied and demanding accountability for the country's long-running economic crisis, AFP correspondents said.

Behind their homes is an oil pipeline and above them are high-voltage cables suspended between pylons. A little further off is a flare tower, burning off excess gas 24 hours a day.

Zimbabwe hiked interest rates to an all-time high of 200% in June to help rein in inflation.

It's been five years since Angola had a good rainy season and harvest. In the acutely vulnerable country, fewer than half say they have heard of climate change.

Six people, including two army colonels, were condemned to death by a DR Congo military court on Friday for the murder of two Chinese mine workers.

Taiwanese prosecutors on Friday indicted a senior university official and nine others over a scholarship scam where Ugandan students were forced to toil in a factory instead of studying.