Two years after pledging 500 elephants to Mozambique as a gift, Botswana says the animals are set to be translocated soon.

The Zimbabwean government deported about 70 refugees back to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in violation of international humanitarian law, the United States Embassy in Harare has said.

Intensified intercommunal clashes in the Abyei Administrative Area in South Sudan between February and March led to the displacement of up to 100 000 people, the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund has said.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will seek to move on from the uproar caused by his Covid-19 lockdown fine by announcing a plan to fly asylum seekers to Rwanda to be processed.

It was market day in the town of Moura in central Mali when Malian troops backed by white mercenaries descended in helicopters and opened fire on bewildered residents, according to witnesses' accounts.

Seven Niger police officers and four soldiers were killed on Tuesday in two separate attacks near the country's borders with Burkina Faso and Libya, the government said on Wednesday.

South Africa's military chief said Wednesday that multinational forces had been able to "disrupt" jihadist rebels in northern Mozambique since their deployment there last year.

Inna Koviao Hengari, from the Popular Democratic Movement, said a salary cut for the Namibian president would be an act of good faith.

Ivory Coast Prime Minister Patrick Achi tabled his resignation and that of his government on Wednesday, President Alassane Ouattara said during a cabinet meeting during which he accepted the resignation without providing further detail.

Malawi received 1.9 million oral cholera vaccine doses for the first round of its vaccination drive after cholera was detected in areas affected by floods in March.

The Inter-Parliamentary Union says it will send an observer team to Eswatini to check on the human rights situation of two of the kingdom's legislators who were arrested nine months ago on allegations of terrorism.

At least 154 people were killed in Sunday's attack by gunmen on villages in Nigeria's northern Plateau state, more than three times the initial count, two community leaders said.

US Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa David Satterfield will step down from his role before summer, sources familiar with the matter said on Tuesday, after less than six months on the job and at a time of persistent politi

Detoh Rie has spent the last five days hiding in a swamp with his children - one among thousands of South Sudanese forced to flee their homes as renewed violence threatens to return the fragile nation to war.

Egypt's state-appointed human rights council has urged prosecutors to investigate whether an economic researcher, who authorities say died in a state mental health facility last month, was a victim of forced disappearance.

Gunmen have killed over 100 people after ransacking a group of villages in central Nigeria, local sources said, in one of worst attacks this year blamed on heavily armed criminal gangs who terrorise parts of the country.

Survivors' stories are contained in a report by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International titled "We Will Erase You from this Land" which has largely been condemned by the Ethiopian government.

Millions of people in Somalia are at risk of famine, with young children the most vulnerable to the worsening drought in the troubled Horn of Africa nation, UN agencies warned on Tuesday.

The family of one of Egypt's most prominent human rights activists, Alaa Abd el-Fattah, said on Monday he had obtained British citizenship as part of a campaign to win his release from prison and spotlight the plight of fellow detainees.

A Colombian researcher has been trampled to death by an elephant in Kibale National Park in western Uganda, the country's national parks authority said on Monday.