Four media workers in Ethiopia's conflict-wracked Tigray region, including a translator working for Agence France-Presse, have been arrested and detained.

Gunmen have released girls who were kidnapped from a boarding school in the northwest Nigerian state of Zamfara, the governor has announced.

At least 11 people have been killed and three injured when a gold mine collapsed in northern Burkina Faso.

Officials in Nigeria's Zamfara state are in touch with the gunmen who abducted 317 schoolgirls last week and are negotiating their release, two state officials told Reuters.

Zimbabwe's Vice President Kembo Mohadi has resigned, saying this was meant to save the image of the government following local media reports of improper conduct.

MTN has updated the registrations of 48.7% of its Nigerian subscribers since December. It has until April 6 to update many millions more.

People have queued early as the Ivory Coast prepared to become the first country to launch a Covid-19 inoculation drive.

Unrest broke out in an Algerian town after a blogger and activist was handed a seven-year jail sentence for condoning acts of terrorism, a news website has reported.

Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo has urged citizens of the West African state to ignore conspiracy theories surrounding coronavirus vaccines.

South Africa is not in a position to pronounce on whether the Ugandan elections was free and fair.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Saturday called on the African Union and other international partners to help address a deepening crisis in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region as he condemned alleged atrocities in fighting there.

Gunmen in Nigeria on Saturday released 27 teenage boys who were kidnapped from their school last week in the north-central state of Niger, while security forces continued to search for more than 300 schoolgirls abducted in a nearby state.

Business executives are sounding decidedly upbeat in Zimbabwe, a sea change from the pessimism they’ve expressed through two decades of economic mismanagement and institutional decay.

Kidnappers have freed 42 people, including 27 children, snatched from a school in central Nigeria 10 days ago, officials said on Saturday, a day after more than 300 schoolgirls were abducted by gunmen in the northwest.

Unidentified gunmen seized more than 300 girls in a nighttime raid on a school in northwest Nigeria on Friday and are believed to be holding some of them in a forest, police said.

Libya's prime minister-designate Abdul Hamid Dheibah is set to name a transitional government tasked with unifying the war-torn nation and leading it to elections in December.

Police in Cameroon have arrested nine people on suspicion of homosexuality, most of them at an HIV/AIDS care centre, an LGBT rights lawyer said.

The African Union is backing calls for drugmakers to waive some intellectual property rights on Covid-19 medicines and vaccines to speed up their rollout to poor countries, the head of its disease control body.

Liquid Telecom, majority owned by telecoms tycoon Strive Masiyiwa, raised $840 million in a bond sale to refinance debt and expand further into Africa.

Gunmen have killed 36 people in two attacks in Nigeria, a day after insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades amid worsening security facing Africa's most populous nation.