Armed men attempted to kidnap more students in Nigeria's Kaduna state overnight, a state government official said, as 39 others from an earlier attack remain missing.

Ethiopia gave out its first coronavirus vaccine doses on Saturday, as the health ministry warned of an "alarming" increase in cases.

The local government declared the radius of the blast site a catastrophe zone and announced three days of national mourning starting on Wednesday.

Nigerian security forces stepped up efforts on Saturday to rescue dozens of students who were abducted from their hostels in northwestern Kaduna state in the latest attack on schools, police and officials said.

NAIROBI, March 12 - Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta on Friday extended a nationwide overnight COVID-19 curfew for 60 days to battle a third wave of infections in East Africa's wealthiest economy.

Tanzania's President John Magufuli is in good health and working normally, one of his diplomats has told a broadcaster in Namibia, countering reports he had been flown to hospital in Kenya and then India in a critical condition with Covid-19.

Nigerian gunmen have snatched an unspecified number of students from a college in a northwestern state, local police have said, in the latest abduction targeting schools.

A judge in Mauritania's capital Nouakchott has charged ex-president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz and about 10 other figures with corruption, following an investigation into his decade-long rule.

President Alassane Ouattara says country ‘in mourning’ after death of Hamed Bakayoko from cancer.

Mauritius has gone into lockdown and suspended flights in and out of the island for two weeks following the discovery of 15 more cases of Covid-19.

After casting itself as a fighter against corruption, Sierra Leone's government is under fire over allegations of irregular spending by its first lady and a senior minister.

MTN plans to invest approximately R29.1 billion in its network, fintech and digital services platforms in 2021, in support of its 2025 ambition.

Zimbabwe has authorised the emergency use of four Covid-19 vaccines, including Russia's Sputnik V and China's Sinovac, the minister of information said on Tuesday.

A group of lawmakers in Ghana want to criminalise the promotion of LGBT+ rights, a move that comes weeks after a community centre for sexual minorities was shut down following strong opposition from politicians and church organisations.

Flights between the eastern Libya city of Benghazi and the western city of Misrata were restored Tuesday after a near seven year absence, the latest tentative step towards national reconciliation.

The United States has reimposed curbs on an Israeli billionaire accused of corruption in the Democratic Republic of Congo, reversing a move by Donald Trump during his last days in office.

A Senegalese judge charged opposition leader Ousmane Sonko with rape and freed him from detention pending an investigation on Monday, after his arrest last week sparked the West African state's worst unrest in years.

South Africans looking to enjoy the Seychelles’ pristine white beaches and warm seas will need to wait until the UK revises its “red list”.

Child soldiers and other victims of convicted Congolese militia leader Bosco Ntaganda should get a total of $30 million compensation, International Criminal Court judges have ruled, in their highest ever reparation order.

Ghana suffered a nationwide power cut on Sunday, the west African country's electricity provider GRIDCo said, as it attempted to restore power.