African countries that have not reported the circulation of the 501Y.V2 coronavirus variant first identified in South Africa should proceed with the rollout of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine.

Libya has rescued more than 1 500 would-be migrants off its west coast in the past week, a non-governmental organisation said.

Around 20 United Nations peacekeepers were wounded in an attack on their base in central Mali on Wednesday, a UN spokesperson said, offering a provisional toll.

Security Council calls on federal government and regional states to work together for inclusive elections.

Standard Bank is interested in buying shares it doesn’t already own in its Angolan unit after authorities seized the assets of Carlos Sao Vicente, Standard Bank’s 49% partner in the Luanda-based division

eSwatini will no longer use AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine, its health minister said.

Armed gangs killed 23 people in attacks across five districts in northwest Nigeria, officials said.

A Nigerian criminal gang leader behind the kidnapping of hundreds of schoolchildren in northwest Katsina state in December has surrendered to authorities in an amnesty deal, officials said on Tuesday.

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.