The body of the Italian ambassador killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo has arrived in Rome, as Rwandan Hutu rebels denied accusations they were behind the attack.

Applications for a second round of the R28 million Google News Initiative Innovation Challenge across the Africa region just opened, as big tech companies tussle with Australia about media funding.

Senegal began its coronavirus vaccination campaign on Tuesday with 200 000 doses that it purchased from China's Sinopharm, which it received last week.

Rwandan Hutu rebels have denied allegations they were behind the killing of the Italian ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Fifteen members of a contingent of Ethiopian peacekeepers in South Sudan have refused to return to Ethiopia, the UN has said.

Guinea will launch an Ebola vaccination drive after a flight delayed by a Saharan dust storm arrived carrying thousands of jabs.

Sudan's central bank sharply devalued the currency on Sunday, announcing a new regime to "unify" official and black-market exchange rates and meet demands by foreign donors and the IMF.

Bobi Wine, who had disputed January election results, says "the courts are not independent" as he withdraws his case.

The president of Tanzania has urged its citizens to take preventive measures against the coronavirus after downplaying the disease for months.

Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine has said he was withdrawing a court case challenging presidential election results that handed victory to incumbent Yoweri Museveni.

Seven election workers have been killed during Niger's presidential vote when their vehicle struck a landmine, a local official said.

Gunmen have opened fire on the motorcade of Libyan Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha in the capital Tripoli but he escaped unharmed, a source close to Bashagha said.

A small Nigerian air force passenger plane crashed just outside Abuja airport due to engine failure, killing all seven people on board, the air force said.

The head of the World Health Organization on Sunday appealed to Tanzania to take "robust action" to combat Covid-19 in the country, where the president has long played down the virus.

Algerian authorities released at least 35 pro-democracy activists from jail in the past 24 hours under presidential pardons issued ahead of the second anniversary of a popular uprising, rights groups said.

Bowker, a British national, is credited for widely covering the civil war in Cabo Delgado and exposing the looting of national resources by the elite class in that country. He was deported along with his partner and journalist, Leigh Elston and their...

The Lekki tollgate in Lagos, Nigeria's sprawling megacity of 20 million people, has frozen in time since October when security forces shot at peaceful protesters.

eSwatini's King Mswati III said he had recovered from Covid-19 after Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen sent antiviral medication to help him.

Gunfire and rockets exploded on Friday in Mogadishu as Somali government forces clashed with protesters angered by delayed elections, hours after fighters loyal to the government and to the political opposition exchanged gunfire.

A Chadian court on Thursday sentenced a rights activist to three years in jail for writing that the country's iron-fisted ruler was seriously ill and being treated in France.