Zimbabweans are being subjected to 19 hours of power cuts a day, because there is insufficient water in the Kariba dam to drive the nation’s main hydropower plant.

M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo claim stray bullets killed eight civilians during an exchange of gunfire with government forces last week.

Senegalese authorities were searching for two opposition lawmakers on Monday after they attacked a woman MP during a brawl in parliament last week, a senior police official told AFP.

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Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa says the country will need to rely on their neighbours in the South African Development Community (SADC) region for electricity as it faces a severe shortage of power.

In a statement, Beijing said Afghanistan; Benin; Burkina Faso; Guinea-Bissau; Lesotho; Malawi; Sao Tome, Principe; Tanzania; Uganda and Zambia would benefit from the facility.

A Chadian court has handed jail terms of between two and three years to 262 people who were arrested after deadly protests in October, the public prosecutor said on Monday.

Sudan's military and political parties signed a framework deal on Monday that provides for a two-year civilian-led transition towards elections and would end a standoff triggered by a coup in October 2021.

More than half of Tigrayan forces have withdrawn from the frontlines, the forces' top commander said, a month after a ceasefire agreement aimed at ending the two-year conflict in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region.

Gunmen in Nigeria killed a dozen worshippers, including an imam, and kidnapped several others from a mosque on Saturday night, local residents said on Sunday, in the latest attack by armed gangs in the north of the country.

Burkina Faso has ordered the immediate suspension of Radio France Internationale (RFI) broadcasts, accusing it of putting out a "message of intimidation" attributed to a "terrorist chief".

Fifty-seven former hostages of a rebel group in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, some young women used as sex slaves, were reunited with their families Saturday, AFP correspondents saw.

German Economy Minister Robert Habeck began a five-day trip to Namibia and South Africa Sunday, part of a push to secure new energy resources for Europe’s biggest economy to compensate for the cut-off from Russian gas supplies.

From Kenya to Nigeria, African startups are debuting electric vehicles and unveiling plans for increased fleet deployments, especially in the public transport sector.

Inter-tribal tensions, the rebel menace, and hate speech in the eastern and western parts of the DRC are the major threats to a credible, free and fair general election next year, says the UN special advisor on the prevention of genocide.

The European Union has adopted assistance measures in support of the Rwandan Defence Force under the European Peace Facility for its mission in the gas-rich province of Cabo Delgado in Mozambique.

Zimbabwe has finished its allocated water for power generation at the 1 050 megawatts hydroelectric power plant in Kariba South.

Two soldiers with the SADC Mission in Mozambique died in a battle in which more than 30 insurgents were killed earlier this week in the oil and gas-rich Cabo Delgado province.

The trial of 18 people accused of responsibility for the deadly 2016 attack on a beach resort in Grand Bassam, Ivory Coast, opened on Wednesday in the country's main city, Abidjan.

Rwanda's President Paul Kagame on Wednesday accused his counterpart in the Democratic Republic of Congo of exploiting a violent crisis in his country's east to delay elections.