Flash floods triggered by torrential rains in Angola have killed at least 14 people and displaced around 8 000 in the capital Luanda, the national news agency reported.

Nigeria police have killed 30 gunmen after criminal gangs raided four villages in the country's north west, which has been hit by a surge in kidnappings and attacks.

Two years into a malaria vaccine pilot scheme, more than 650 000 children have been immunised across Kenya, Ghana and Malawi, the World Health Organisation said.

Chad's longtime ruler President Idriss Deby, a Western ally in the fight against Islamist militants in Africa, was killed on the frontline against rebels in the north.

Zimbabwe's parliament approved legislation removing a clause in the constitution on electing vice presidents.

Algerian security services have arrested eight people linked to the Hirak pro-democracy protest movement over an allegedly foreign-financed criminal association.

Mozambique, Botswana and Namibia have suspended poultry from South Africa.

Idriss Deby Itno, who was on course for a sixth term as Chad's president before he died from injuries sustained in battle, had carved out a reputation as the West's stalwart ally in the Sahel - despite accusations of authoritarianism.

Chad's newly re-elected President Idriss Deby Itno, in power for three decades, died on Tuesday of injuries while fighting rebels in the north of the Sahel country, the army said.

When Kenyan farmer Waki Munyalo's crop of lentils shrank by three quarters last year because of unusually low rainfall, disaster was averted thanks to a simple remedy that was previously unavailable to most African farmers -

Chad's long-ruling President Idriss Deby Itno was re-elected to a sixth term with 79.32 percent of the votes cast in 11 April's election.

At least 14 civilians and one police officer have died in the latest bout of ethnic violence in Ethiopia's Amhara region, officials said, adding to a toll already in the hundreds.

After Insider interviewed Abdullah Abdul-Gawad, whose digger helped free the Ever Given, the Suez Canal Authority said he got his overtime.

South Sudan is looking to dispose of 60 000 expired doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, as rollout of the drugs is hampered by scepticism among the population.

France "bears significant responsibility" for enabling the genocide in Rwanda and still refuses to acknowledge its true role in the 1994 horror, said a report commissioned by Kigali that was released on Monday.

The Chadian army said it had killed 300 rebels in the north of the country at the weekend, adding that it had lost five of its soldiers.

Twelve people were killed and dozens of houses burnt when a fuel tanker overturned, spilled its contents and caught fire in central Nigeria, the emergency services said Monday.

Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera on Sunday fired Labour Minister Ken Kandodo for diverting $800 worth of Covid-19 funds to pay for a government trip, part of a wider embezzlement scandal.

The International Monetary Fund expects 3.1% economic growth this year compared with an earlier forecast of 4.2% expansion.

The three million African farmers who supply most of the world's cashew nuts aren't cashing in on the booming demand due to a lack of processing facilities, a UN body said on Friday.