Mozambique will remove a seventh grade natural science textbook from schools after outrage on social media over content that discussed masturbation and homosexuality, the education ministry said Tuesday.

Work is underway to expand the two-way section of the Suez canal to 82 km from 72 km, the chairperson of the authority managing the Egyptian waterway said on Tuesday.

The European Union and the Gates Foundation will invest over 100 million euros over the next five years to help set up an African medicines regulator to boost the continent's drugs and vaccine production.

BENI, Feb 15 - Militants armed with guns and machetes killed at least 15 people and injured four on Tuesday in an early morning raid on a village in Congo's eastern Ituri province, according to local authorities.

Ethiopia's parliament on Tuesday voted for an early end to a six-month state of emergency declared in November when rebellious Tigrayan forces had threatened to march on the capital.

Namibia has spent more than R300 million on Covid-19 vaccine procurement - excluding consumables, such as syringes and test kits - but its vaccination rates remain off target.

There has been a sharp increase in tribally motivated violence targeting internally displaced people in refugee camps in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. In the latest attack, 62 people were killed.

Grindrod, the Johannesburg-listed logistics operator, plans to triple capacity at its drybulk port terminals in Mozambique to cater for growing demand for coal exports from South Africa.

Zimbabwe's former finance minister, Tendai Biti, was on Monday detained for several hours while campaigning for upcoming legislative by-elections in Harare amid fears of a fresh wave of opposition arrests.

The trial in Zimbabwe of New York Times freelancer Jeffrey Moyo, accused of arranging fake accreditation for two colleagues, ended Monday with his lawyers seeking to have the case dismissed.

As climate change continues to devastate rural areas, young women are moving to urban centres – and into prostitution.

Nigeria's drug agency on Monday declared a suspended senior police officer once celebrated for exposing several high-profile crimes as wanted for complicity in an international drug deal.

Mali's ruling military junta, which is being squeezed by economic sanctions, has defaulted on several payments on the regional financial market, according to West African finance officials.

Mozambique's President Filipe Nyusi received a thousand tonnes of donated maize from Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who was on a one-day state visit to Maputo on Friday.

The fine and prison terms are contained in a government gazette, which was published on Friday, under the Public Health Act.

The Madagascar town of Mananjary has been destroyed after Tropical Cyclone Batsirai, aid workers have said.

Fresh off a visit to conflict-torn regions of Ethiopia, UN Deputy Secretary General Amina Mohammed described Friday the "unimaginable" horrors women have faced, and called for justice and accountability.

Madagascar's death toll from Tropical Cyclone Batsirai rose to 111 Friday, with most of the fatalities from a single district where it levelled homes.

At least 135 000 public school teachers will be affected by the Zimbabwean government's decision to suspend them without pay for a going on strike.

Libyan Prime Minister Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah on Friday promised to draft a new election law to solve the political crisis in the North African country.