An Algerian court pronounced death sentences on Thursday against 48 people convicted of murder for killing a man they accused of setting deadly wildfires in summer 2020.

The brief ban has compromised countries, such as Zimbabwe and Namibia, who have been trading in live elephants.

Tanzania’s director of public prosecution, Sylvester Anthony Mwakitalu said the charges of murder and conspiracy to murder against the group, which includes 10 leaders, should be dropped.

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Malawi is in the grip of a cholera outbreak which has spread across the country, killing 292 people and infecting 9447 since March when the first case was reported, according to health minister Khumbize Chiponda.

Officials say some districts have gone for at least two weeks without registering new infections.

An agreement has been struck which could mean the adoption of a ceasefire in the violence-torn east of DR Congo as soon as late Friday, Angola's Foreign Minister Tete Antonio has said.

Authorities in Namibia's capital Windhoek on Wednesday took down and relocated a statue of a controversial German colonial officer following pressure from local activists.

Democratic Republic of Congo leader Felix Tshisekedi and Rwandan Foreign Minister Vincent Biruta went into talks on Wednesday in Angola amid heightened tensions in eastern DRC.

The US will host 49 African heads of state, and the African Union envoy, in Washington for a three-day US-Africa Summit between 13 and 15 December. However, four countries have not been invited - Mali, Burkina Faso, Sudan, and Guinea.

Twitter agreed to engage with fired staff from its only African office after they were offered poorer-than-announced severance packages.

Boko Haram militants killed at least 10 Chadian soldiers in an attack on a military unit in Lake Chad province near the Nigerian border on Tuesday, Chad's government said in a statement.

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa will on Wednesday present his state of the nation address during the opening of the fifth session of the ninth parliament, in a building built and donated by the Chinese.

The Southern African Development Community is seeking to increase cooperation among member states in the recovery of ill-gotten wealth when the bloc's Anti-Corruption Committee meets on Wednesday.

About US$20.6 million (R360 million) linked to the regime of late Nigerian dictator General Sani Abacha will be repatriated for the completion of three infrastructure development projects in the west African country.

Furaha Twizere recounted from her hospital bed in east DR Congo's city of Goma how artillery rounds killed her husband instantly.

More than 100 people, including women and children were abducted when gunmen raided four villages in Nigeria's northeastern Zamfara state on Sunday, the information commissioner and residents said on Monday.

Uganda's army said on Monday it will send 1 000 troops to neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo by the end of this month to join a regional force mandated to help end decades of instability.

The United States has a bounty out on three Al-Shabaab leaders who are linked to fundraising and financing for the terrorist outfit's operations in Kenya, Somalia and other parts of the Sahel region.

Five years after late Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe was removed as head of state and leader of Zanu-PF, former minister, Professor Jonathan Moyo, reminisces about the coup d'état.