Emirates airline will suspend all flights to Nigeria from next week after the West African nation imposed new restrictions on its flights, the carrier said on Friday.

Now that wealthy nations are sharing more Covid-19 shots with African countries, health officials across the continent are scrambling to overcome vaccine hesitancy.

The armies of Burkina Faso and neighbouring Niger said they had killed around 100 "terrorists" in a joint military operation against jihadists on the border between 25 November and 9 December.

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Veteran Kenyan politician Raila Odinga has announced that he would make his fifth bid for the presidency in next year's election.

Five months after foreign soldiers arrived to help Mozambique battle an insurgency in northern Cabo Delgado province, militants have widened their battleground in an evolving conflict, witnesses and analysts say.

Public health authorities in Ghana have introduced new travel guidelines requiring visitors to show proof of vaccination against Covid-19 from next week.

With the conflict urging on in Ethiopia, journalism has been criminalised.

At least 138 people have been killed and dozens wounded in three separate areas of Sudan’s West Darfur state in recent weeks, medics have said, in the latest bout of inter-communal violence.

A lively youth-run radio station, Sudan's 96.0 FM was muzzled for 46 days after authorities banished the channel from the airwaves following an October 25 military coup.

Seventy-three years after the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, African countries have made some progress but more still needs to be done, writes Yanga Malotana.

Fighting between armed groups aligned with government and opposition forces in South Sudan this year subjected civilians to "unimaginable violence" that could amount to war crimes, Amnesty International said.

Burkina Faso's premier and government have resigned as protests mounted against officials' inability to combat a wave of jihadist attacks that have killed thousands.

Tanzania marked its 60th independence anniversary, with President Samia Suluhu Hassan hailing the country's progress even as fears grow over the precarious state of political freedoms in the East African nation.

The World Food Program has suspended aid distribution in the northern Ethiopian town of Kombolcha after "mass looting" of its warehouses blamed on Tigrayan forces.

Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Swaziland and South Africa have started or approved booster Covid-19 jabs, despite a low vaccine uptake.

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As the omicron variant of the coronavirus spreads, Zimbabwe is reporting record daily cases and its highest ever test positivity rate.

A Libyan political body has called for the 24 December presidential election to be delayed to February amid growing jostling over the rules and legal basis of a vote.

Gunmen in Nigeria attacked a bus in the country's north western Sokoto state, causing a fire that killed 23 people, police and the governor's spokesperson said.