Low tide overnight has slowed efforts to dislodge a 400m long, 224 000-ton container vessel that has choked traffic in both directions along the Suez Canal.

Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa and some opposition politicians received China's Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine in the tourist resort of Victoria Falls as part of efforts to encourage citizens to get inoculated.

Kenya on Wednesday ordered the closure of two sprawling camps that host hundreds of thousands of refugees from neighbouring Somalia and gave the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) two weeks to present a plan to do so, the interior ministry said.

The Ever Given, a massive container ship wedged in Egypt's Suez Canal, was hit by sand and wind. A deleted post also said a blackout occurred.

French president pledges support for Libya’s interim’s government after meeting with the head of the interim presidency.

The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission said Wednesday that Eritrean soldiers killed over 100 civilians in a November massacre in war-torn Tigray that may amount to crimes against humanity.

Nestled on a mountain in the exclusive Umwinsidale suburb on the outskirts of Harare’s north-eastern periphery, the mansion is immersed in scenic surroundings and there seems to be a seamless connection between its interior design and the environs.

Sudan's transitional cabinet has backed an initiative by the United Arab Emirates to mediate in a border dispute with Ethiopia.

Congo Republic President Denis Sassou Nguesso has been re-elected with more than 88% of the vote, official results showed on Tuesday, extending his 36 years leading the Central African oil producer despite a prolonged economic crisis.

The Democratic Republic of Congo, where the deadly Ebola virus first emerged in 1976, has begun a countdown to the official end of its latest outbreak, this time in the east of the country, health authorities say.

The Democratic Republic of Congo has released its last confirmed Ebola patients from treatment centres, health authorities have announced.

A woman and four children were killed in a stampede in Tanzania as crowds rushed to mourn Tanzania's late president John Magufuli at the weekend, a relative told AFP on Tuesday.

Attacks by suspected jihadists in villages in Niger's Tahoua region has left 137 people dead, the government has said.

Nineteen people died and 34 were injured in Nigeria's northern Kaduna state after a speeding bus veered off the road when one of its tyres burst, an official said.

Nearly one-third of Nigerian children lack access to enough water, the UN children's agency UNICEF said, calling for urgent measures to address the problem.

Zimbabwe's anti graft police last month recovered about 40 boxes of Covid-19 test kits worth thousands of dollars stolen from a public hospital in Bulawayo, the country's second city.

Republic of Congo opposition candidate Guy-Brice Parfait Kolelas died of Covid-19 as he was being transferred to France for treatment, his campaign director said Monday, the day after presidential elections in which he was the main challenger.

Islamic State's West Africa affiliate has claimed responsibility for an ambush last week that killed 33 Malian soldiers.

President Nguesso seeking to extend his 36-year reign while critics say vote won’t be free and fair.

The al-Shabab insurgency in Mozambique's mineral-rich northern province of Cabo Delgado has caused 2,000 deaths and displaced 670,000 people.