History could repeat itself with African countries left behind in the fight against monkeypox just like at the onset of the Covid-19 vaccine rollout.

Sierra Leone's government has approved a draft law that would decriminalise abortion in a country with one of the world's highest maternal mortality rates.

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At least 30 Nigerian soldiers were killed in an ambush after gunmen attacked a mine in the Shiroro area of Niger state earlier this week, three sources said on Saturday.

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Fury at Libya's feuding leaders boiled over on Friday as protesters stormed the parliament building in the eastern city of Tobruk and staged the biggest demonstration for years in the capital Tripoli, in the west.

The Gambia on Friday suspended all timber exports, following reports the West African state is serving as a transit point for the illegal smuggling of endangered rosewood.

Pope Francis has said he is "greatly disappointed" he cannot make a planned visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan on Saturday due to knee pain.

Algeria marks 60 years of independence from France on Tuesday, but rival narratives over atrocities committed during more than a century of colonial rule still trigger bitter diplomatic tensions.

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A new wave of violence in jihadist-hit northern Mozambique uprooted close to 30 000 children in June, the highest monthly figure in the long-running crisis, a British charity reported.

With under six weeks before Kenya goes to the polls on 9 August, the United States and other international partners are pulling out all stops to see the east African country hold peaceful and credible elections.

Former president Thabo Mbeki has paid tribute to the late Kenneth Kaunda for his role in the liberation of South Africa from "colonialism of a special type", at the first anniversary of the former Zambian president's death.

The Eswatini government has declared activist and journalist Zweli Martin Dlamini a terrorist, and condemned his online publication Swaziland News.

At least nine Sudanese demonstrators were killed Thursday as security forces sought to quash mass rallies of protesters demanding an end to military rule, pro-democracy medics said.

Ten migrants have been found dead in the desert in northern Niger near the Libyan border, the Nigerien defence ministry said.

The family of Democratic Republic of Congo's murdered independence hero Patrice Lumumba buried his only known remains, a tooth, in the capital Kinshasa, 61 years after his death at the hands of Belgian-backed secessionist rebels.

Parliament's delegation to the Pan-African Parliament congratulated Fortune Charumbira on his election as PAP president.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo marks the 62nd anniversary of its independence on Thursday.

Mali vowed on Wednesday to defy a United Nations Security Council call for the West African country to allow freedom of movement for peacekeepers to investigate human rights abuses.