Ethiopia has secured nine million doses of Covid-19 vaccines up until April, its health minister told Reuters on Tuesday.

Sudan's Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has announced a new cabinet bringing in seven ex-rebel chiefs as ministers, following a peace deal in October aimed to end decades of war.

The Democratic Republic of Congo will launch a vaccine awareness campaign next week, the authorities said, as an anti-Covid immunisation plan moved cautiously ahead.

At least 24 people died after heavy rain flooded an illegal underground textile workshop in a private house in Morocco's port of Tangiers, the state news agency reported on Monday.

Nineteen people were killed at the weekend when armed men raided two villages in north-west Nigeria's Kaduna state, the government said, in the latest violence to hit the region.

Somalia's opposition leaders have announced that they no longer recognise President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, after his term expired without a political agreement on a path toward elections to replace him.

Kudzai Kwangwari has written a response to MDC leader Nelson Chamisa's opinion piece, saying democratic approaches cannot be used to deal with undemocratic dictators.

Chad's former prime minister Moussa Faki Mahamat on Saturday won a second term as head of the African Union's executive body at the opening of a two-day virtual summit expected to focus on the continent's pandemic response.

African leaders will open a two-day virtual summit Saturday to discuss the continent's Covid-19 response as well as security issues that have been overlooked during the pandemic.

Scientists have identified Earth's smallest known reptile, warning at the same time that sustained destruction of forests in northern Madagascar threatens its survival.

UN says most of the troubled region remains ‘inaccessible’ for aid workers amid growing hunger due to ongoing fighting.

Hundreds of South Sudanese politicians have been kicked out of hotels where they have been staying during the country's peace process, over some $50 million dollars in unpaid bills, a hotel association said late on Thursday.

Egypt has released Al Jazeera journalist Mahmoud Hussein after more than four years in detention on accusations of publishing false news, a security source said Friday.

About two million Mozambicans in the epicentre of the country's coronavirus breakout will from Friday adhere to a curfew for the first time since the civil war ended in 1992, President Filipe Nyusi announced on Thursday.

In an interview with Zimbabwe Television Network, finance minister Mthuli Ncube said government will only cater for frontline workers and the most vulnerable in society.

After a year in which coronavirus restrictions caused a slump in diamond exports, Botswana's president said on Thursday that the country needs to diversify its economy.

China will donate 100 000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine to Congo Republic and forgive $13 million in public debt, its ambassador to the Central African country said on Thursday.

Zimbabwe will receive 200 000 free doses of China's Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Thursday, after China and Russia offered shots against the coronavirus to the impoverished southern African nation.

Child soldier-turned-Lord’s Resistance Army commander Dominic Ongwen convicted by Netherlands-based court.

Angolan police fired tear gas at youths rallying in Luanda against police brutality and economic hardship.