Kenyan president William Ruto's first test of war is deploying soldiers to the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to help fend off M23 rebels that have taken up critical positions in the mineral-rich North Kivu province.

The plenary meeting of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme is under way in Botswana and it's expected to decide if Russian diamonds should be declared conflict gems.

Egyptian security forces have arrested nearly 70 people in connection with calls for protests to coincide with the COP27 climate summit, a rights group said.

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A UK parliamentarian is lobbying for sanctions against Eritrea for its role in the conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region.

Like Nigeria, MTN Ghana is facing an order by authorities to conduct SIM registration of all customers and SIM cards that have not completed registration face being blocked from 1 November 2022.

Thousands of anti-Rwanda protesters marched through the eastern DR Congo city of Goma on Monday, AFP journalists saw, as M23 rebels tightened their grip on the surrounding countryside.

MTN asked the Nigerian government to reverse a directive cancelling an increase in telecom tariffs implemented by operators last month, citing rising costs in the industry.

Russia's withdrawal from the United Nations brokered deal, to allow grain and fertiliser to leave Ukraine via the Black Sea, will alter global food production - and Africa could likely be the hardest hit.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday held an emergency meeting with security chiefs, who played down any increased threats after the US embassy warned of potential attacks on the capital.

The Standard Bank Group is open to acquisitions in Nigeria and Kenya as Africa’s biggest lender by assets expands its presence in key markets on the continent.

The third Inter-Congolese Dialogue of the Nairobi Process has been pushed back at a time when M23 rebels are advancing to take control of key towns in eastern DRC's North Kivu province.

US State Department spokesperson Edward "Ned" Price says the country has "no higher priority than the safety and security of American citizens around the world".

MTN Nigeria saw a marginal 57 000 quarter-on-quarter decline in mobile subscribers in its third quarter to end-September, but it still gained more than 5 million subscribers in the first nine months of its 2022 year.

Rwanda "notes with regret" the decision by the Democratic Republic of Congo to expel its envoy at a time when chaos has returned to the eastern parts of DRC.

Eleven people were killed on Saturday, including two police officers, in a crush at an overcrowded stadium concert in Kinshasa headlined by Congolese singer Fally Ipupa, the interior minister said.

Two car bomb explosions at the education ministry in Somalia's capital Mogadishu killed or wounded scores of people on Saturday, police and the state news agency said.

Fighters from the M23 rebel group seized the town of Kiwandja in eastern Congo on Saturday, residents and a local official said, effectively cutting North Kivu's capital Goma off from the upper half of the province.

Talks to end hostilities in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, taking place in Pretoria, are set to end on Sunday, but already the federal government of Ethiopia has reservations.

Ethiopia's Tigray region has run out of medical supplies such as vaccines, antibiotics and insulin, World Health Organization officials said on Friday.