South Sudan's President Salva Kiir announced a new parliament on Monday including lawmakers from opposing sides of the country's civil war as part of a 2018 peace accord, state television has reported.

Nigeria on Monday introduced new restrictions, including a ban on mass gatherings, after a spike in Covid-19 cases in some countries.

Portugal and Mozambique signed a new military cooperation accord on Monday to help the poor African nation confront a growing jihadist threat by beefing up training, notably of special forces.

Police in Ivory Coast have rescued 68 children working on cocoa farms, most of whom were trafficked from neighbouring Burkina Faso, authorities said.

At least 12 people, including a senior army officer, were killed and several others wounded in a roadside ambush in central Burundi, administrative and medical sources said on Monday.

Thirty people drowned when an overloaded boat capsized in central Nigeria's Niger state, an emergency official told AFP on Monday.

Armed attackers killed six people at a police station in southern Nigeria, a police spokesperson said on Sunday, bringing the total number of officers killed over the weekend to 12 amid escalating violence nationwide.

It's cheaper and quieter than ever before to see one of the greatest spectacles on Earth in the Masai Mara and Serengeti.

Freight truckers who normally travel to Lusaka via Zimbabwe will now have the option of driving via Botswana, avoiding the congested Beitbridge crossing.

Seven policemen were killed in a series of attacks on security installations in Nigeria's oil-rich Rivers state, police said Saturday.

Nigeria’s Paystack has entered South Africa and is looking to challenge Yoco and PayFast for a piece of the lucrative e-commerce market.

Three Malian soldiers have been killed when their convoy hit an improvised explosive device near the central town of Hombori, according to security officials.

Over 17 500 people have fled their homes in jihadist-hit Burkina Faso in the last 10 days after attacks that claimed at least 45 lives, the United Nations said.

The World Health Organisation has warned of a new wave of Covid-19 infections in Africa due to delayed vaccine supplies, a slow rollout and new variants.

Rebels who launched an offensive in northern Chad, sparking clashes that claimed the life of veteran president Idriss Deby Itno, are in flight, the country's new defence minister said.

Zimbabwe plans to list a bond on the local exchange for the first time in 20 years to raise funds for the expansion and upgrade of a main highway that links the country to SA, which is its largest trading partner.

The European Union will consider sending a military training mission to Mozambique to help the government withstand a growing insurgency, and Portugal is already sending troops, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Thursday.

The Africa Union's health watchdog on Thursday praised the United States' support for a waiver on patent protections for Covid-19 vaccines as a "remarkable expression of leadership".

The International Criminal Court has sentenced Dominic Ongwen, a Ugandan child soldier who became a commander in the notorious Lord's Resistance Army, to 25 years in jail.

Kenyan judge Martha Koome has defended dissidents and helped to write women's rights into the constitution - now she's on track to be the first female chief justice.