Burkina Faso President Roch Kabore has been detained at a military camp by mutinying soldiers, according to four security sources and a West African diplomat, following heavy gunfire around his residence on Sunday night in the capital Ouagadougou.

In a bid to get youngsters off the streets, a Zimbabwean self-proclaimed prophet is offering up to R2 million in a bible verse challenge.

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Zimbabwe's central bank and business leaders met Friday to explore ways to halt the plunge of the local currency against the US dollar, the Sunday Mail newspaper reported.

Cameroon's government said that 16 people were killed in a fire caused by fireworks in a nightclub in the capital Yaounde.

Nigeria's giant new Dangote oil refinery will start processing crude in the third quarter of this year.

CONAKRY, Jan 22 - Guinea's junta on Saturday set up an 80-member council to act as a parliament during the country's transition to elections, according to a decree read on the state broadcaster, following a coup in September that ousted President Al

Gunshots were heard in several barracks in Burkina Faso on Sunday, including two in the capital Ouagadougou, military sources and residents told AFP.

The Malawi government has revoked the diplomatic status of eight recalled diplomats who had refused to leave the United States in a stand-off over the shipping home of their personal effects.

Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the powerful son of Uganda's president, arrived in Rwanda on Saturday to meet President Paul Kagame for a visit that marks warming relations between the neighbouring countries after years of tension.

Ethiopia's military is planning to enter the Tigray regional capital of Mekelle and "eliminate" rebellious forces, a top military official has said amid diplomatic efforts to end conflict in the country's north.

Sudan's second most powerful leader was heading to Ethiopia on Saturday, a rare visit by an official from Khartoum that comes amid border tensions, state media said.

Three teachers, the headmaster and a deputy head were kidnapped from a Cameroonian high school by armed men in one of two English-speaking regions plagued by an armed conflict between separatists and soldiers, a teachers' union told AFP on Friday.

Jihadists killed two people and kidnapped 20 children in Nigeria's Borno state, where Islamist militants are waging a more than decade-long insurgency, a community leader and two residents said.

Ethiopia says advantages outweigh Egypt and Sudan's concerns over its ambitious bid to fill up the hydroelectric Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.

South African-born billionaire businessman and scientist Dr Patrick Soon-Shiong says he is going to use what he learnt in the US to make southern Africa the nexus of development in Africa.

Mali held a state ceremony on Friday for former president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, who was ousted in a 2020 coup and died last week.

Authorities in Burkina Faso’s capital, Ouagadougou, have banned an anti-government protest planned for Saturday, two months after another rally turned violent.

At least 17 people were killed and 59 injured Thursday in a devastating explosion in a western Ghana town after a truck carrying explosives intended for a mine collided with a motorcycle, the government said.

The engineers aboard the floating power station on Lake Kivu could only watch nervously as the volcano in the distance erupted violently, sending tremors rumbling through the water beneath them.