At least six people have died in Nigeria's commercial capital of Lagos after the collapse of a high-rise building that was under construction, the state emergency services chief said on Tuesday.

Zimbabwe's health ministry has approved the use of China's Sinovac Biotech Covid-19 vaccine for 16- and 17-year-olds, it said , adding that the country aimed to achieve herd immunity by the end of December.

A high-rise building under construction in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos collapsed on Monday, trapping several workers under a pile of concrete rubble, witnesses said.

Kenyan police announced they were reopening a case into the 2012 murder of a young mother last seen with a British soldier from a nearby military base.

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Namibia suspended imports of live poultry, birds and poultry products from Germany and the Netherlands on Monday after outbreaks of the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu in the European countries.

The main Central African Republic opposition parties have rejected national dialogue plans announced by President Faustin Archange Touadera as he attempts to end eight years of conflict.

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.

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.