At least eight injured people taken to local hospital after shafts collapsed at the Darsaya mine in West Kordofan.

Automatic weapons fire crackled out, and Captain Miraj, a Bangladeshi peacekeeper, told everyone to run.

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Egypt has "digitally unwrapped" the mummy of famed Pharaoh Amenhotep I, revealing its secrets for the first time since it was discovered in 1881 without disturbing his funerary mask.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has eradicated a four-month meningitis outbreak at a time when national resources have been stretched due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Somalia's allies expressed alarm over the intensifying row between the country's president and prime minister as heavily armed factions patrolled parts of Mogadishu on Tuesday, raising fears that the political crisis could erupt into violence.

This year, there were four successful military takeovers across the continent, up from one in 2021.

Smuggling operations that span at least nine African countries involve tons of gold spirited over borders.

Twelve civilians and 38 rebels have died in four days of fighting in northeast DR Congo, where the armed forces are carrying out a crackdown on militias, military and local sources have said.

At the St Joseph Covid Treatment Centre in Kinshasa, patients lie in ramshackle rooms breathing oxygen from old tanks. The clinic has 38 beds, and all but one are occupied.

Somalia's President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed has announced that he was suspending Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble, a day after the two men sparred over long-delayed elections in the troubled Horn of Africa nation.

The captain admitted that the vessel sailed close to the Mauritian shores so that they could get cellphone signals.

Somalia's president, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, has said he had suspended the prime minister’s powers, escalating a destabilising dispute in the Horn of Africa country.

A suicide bomber killed at least five people at a crowded night spot in the city of Beni in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo Saturday, local officials reported.

A bomb exploded inside a restaurant in Beni, a city in the east of Democratic Republic of Congo, the mayor said on local radio.

A military tribunal in the Democratic Republic of Congo has handed a life sentence to four policemen for torturing an alleged car thief to death, trial footage showed.

Kenya will offer Covid-19 booster shots to individuals six months after their initial shots, the health ministry said in a document published on Saturday.

At least six people have been killed in attacks by suspected jihadists in Niger near its border with Burkina Faso, authorities said on Friday.

Mali's government has denied any deployment of Russian mercenaries from the Wagner group following charges by a group of 15 Western powers involved in the fight against jihadists in the Sahel country.

Leopards have been reintroduced to Zinave National Park in Mozambique as part of a rewilding programme.