Sudanese anti-coup protesters on Sunday manned barricades in Khartoum a day after a deadly crackdown on mass rallies, as a defiant civil disobedience campaign against the military takeover entered its seventh day.

At least five police officers were killed in Burkina Faso on Sunday in an attack near the border with Mali, security forces have said.

Algeria on Sunday expressed "profound regret" at what it called an unbalanced UN Security Council resolution calling on all sides to resume talks toward a solution in disputed Western Sahara.

The UN mission in Libya has urged leaders to stick to the December 24 timeline for presidential and legislative polls it hopes will help stabilise the war-battered nation.

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Ethiopian forces have mounted a fresh battle for the strategic northern city of Dessie, residents said on Sunday, hours after Tigrayan rebels claimed to have taken control of it.

Sudanese anti-coup protesters on Sunday manned barricades in Khartoum a day after a deadly crackdown on mass rallies, as a defiant civil disobedience campaign against the military takeover entered its seventh day.

The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe increased its bank rate from 40% to 60% in a bid to tame rising inflation and a depreciating local currency.

A bomb that looked like a "jackfruit" killed at least two children in a Ugandan village, after being given to the children while they were playing, a senior police official said.

Africa's last absolute monarchy, Eswatini, needs to enact reforms in the wake of pro-democracy protests that have rattled the country since June, Deputy Prime Minister Themba Masuku said.

Sudan's military coup leader, facing pressure at home and abroad to restore power to civilians, has said a technocratic prime minister could be announced in a week.

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has said schools will reopen early next year regardless of currently low vaccination uptake.

Implats’ Zimbabwe-based unit Zimplats on Thursday announced plans to invest a total of US$1.8 billion over the next seven years towards mine expansion, as well as the establishment of a base metal refinery.

Sanctions against Zimbabwean politicians and institutions should be scrapped because they worsen pre-existing social and economic woes in the troubled nation, a UN expert said.

Africa's struggle to inoculate people against Covid-19 risks being hobbled by a shortage of syringes just as supplies of vaccines flood into the continent.

The Congolese army said that it had lost four soldiers and killed 27 militiamen in two days of fighting in several villages in the north east of the country.

Mozambique must find a political solution to end four years of unrest by Islamist militants, civic rights groups said on Thursday, arguing that the government's military intervention puts the exploitation of natural gas resources ahead of peace and s

Some of the DR Congo's former child soldiers have become traders, hairdressers and tailors, but many struggle to recover a normal life.

Ethiopia's military on Thursday carried out an air strike on the capital of the war-torn Tigray region that a hospital official and rebel sources said killed six people and injured 21 others.

State media report ambassadors to the US, EU, China, Qatar, France and head of Geneva mission relieved of their posts.