Zimbabwe will begin its Covid-19 vaccination campaign next week, the health ministry said on Friday, potentially positioning it as the first southern African country to start inoculating citizens.

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has returned home after a one-month stay in Germany for surgery following post-Covid-19 complications in his foot.

Uganda accused the European Union of meddling on Friday after the bloc's parliament recommended sanctions over a crackdown and arrests of opponents around President Yoweri Museveni's disputed re-election last month.

The UK Supreme Court on Friday allowed a group of 42 500 Nigerian farmers and fishermen to sue Royal Dutch Shell (RDS) in English courts after years of oil spills in the Niger Delta contaminated land and groundwater.

Chad will deploy some 1 000 troops to the tri-border region of Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali to reinforce national armies that, backed by French and European allies, are battling Islamist insurgents, according to French and Chadia

Deaths from Covid-19 in Africa surged by 40 percent over the last month, the World Health Organisation said, as the continent's toll approaches 100 000.

Nigeria's government has warned against weekend protests in Lagos to demand justice for victims of a deadly shooting during demonstrations last year.

AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine is not perfect, but will have a big impact on the pandemic, its chief executive predicted on Thursday, as the drugmaker pledged to double output by April and the African Union gave its backing for the shot.

Two people have contracted Ebola and died this week in Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the health ministry said in a statement.

Ethiopian, which is doing just fine, have long come up in discussions about the future of SAA – which is not doing well.

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.