Kenya will require all government workers to receive at least one dose of Covid-19 vaccine before August 23 or face disciplinary action.

Warning: This story contains graphic content. Ethiopian and Eritrean troops have raped hundreds of women and girls during the Tigray war, subjecting some to sexual slavery and mutilation, Amnesty International said in a report Wednesday.

Algeria’s government said arsonists were responsible for dozens of forest fires that have killed 24 people, including 18 military men, and destroyed homes east of the capital.

Mogadishu and Nairobi have agreed to "reset" their frosty relations, following talks between Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and Somali Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble.

Zambians will decide Thursday whether to re-elect President Edgar Lungu after the country's worst economic performance in decades.

Nigeria will restart Covid-19 inoculations on 16 August after taking delivery of 4 million doses of Moderna vaccine, with shipments of Johnson & Johnson shots also due imminently.

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has issued a call for all eligible civilians to join the armed forces as fighting raged in multiple regions of Africa's second most populous nation.

At least 12 people were killed and dozens wounded in an attack on civilians displaced by the widening war in northern Ethiopia, a medical official told AFP on Tuesday, signalling the rising humanitarian toll of the conflict.

Ivory Coast ex-president Laurent Gbagbo on Monday proposed setting up a new political party, his deeply divided Ivorian Popular Front (FPI) announced.

Moove plans to fund the first electric cars in these markets before the end of 2021.

Guinea confirmed a case of Marburg disease, the World Health Organisation said on Monday, the first recorded in West Africa of the lethal virus that's related to Ebola and, like Covid-19, passed from animal hosts to humans.

Hakainde Hichilema, who describes himself as an ordinary "cattle boy," is a wealthy businessman who is running for the Zambian presidency for the sixth time.

Health authorities in Guinea have confirmed one death from Marburg virus, a highly infectious hemorrhagic fever similar to Ebola, the World Health Organisation said on Monday.

A cholera outbreak in southern Niger has killed 12 people and infected 201 others across three regions, with heavy rains helping to further spread the disease, the country's health minister said on Monday.

Markets and businesses closed down on Monday and streets were mostly deserted in cities across southeast Nigeria, residents said, after a separatist group called for a protest over the arrest of its leader.

Suspected jihadists massacred 51 civilians in northern Mali and killed 12 troops in an ambush in neighbouring Burkina Faso, the authorities said Monday, highlighting the security crisis gripping the two fragile states.

A politician was abducted from his home in northern Nigeria on Monday, authorities said, and a Swiss national was kidnapped in a separate incident in the southwest over the weekend, according to security sources.

Troops from Mozambique and Rwanda retook a port town at the heart of a four-year insurgency that led to the suspension of a $20 billion project by TotalEnergies.

Zambia's President Edgar Lungu will seek to fend off a perennial opposition challenger in a vote on Thursday that may be decided by frustrated young voters amid economic turmoil and a pending bailout for one of Africa's most indebted

\More than half a million Tunisians received vaccinations on Sunday as part of a national campaign to control the outbreak of Covid-19 after the country received more than 6 million vaccine doses from Western and Arab countries.