Senegalese police have clashed with supporters of arrested opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, leaving one person dead in the south of the country, a police official has said.

Most African countries will kick-start their Covid-19 vaccination programs by the end of March as efforts to procure doses for the continent's 1.3 billion people gather pace.

At least 20 people have drowned after smugglers threw dozens of migrants overboard during a crossing between Djibouti and Yemen.

Egypt has expanded its coronavirus vaccination rollout to include the elderly and people with chronic diseases after several weeks of vaccinating medical staff.

The UN rights chief has said that her office had corroborated grave violations that could amount to "war crimes and crimes against humanity" in Ethiopia's Tigray region.

Amid the economic gloom of the coronavirus disaster and associated negative growth, one sector is shining brightly for Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe might have eased back from the bulk of the Covid-19-induced restrictions that were imposed at the start of the year, but the operating conditions for restaurants will leave half of the sector on the brink of closure, according to the industr...

At least 10 people, including the two pilots, have died when a plane crashed at an airstrip in South Sudan's Jonglei state, the region's governor and the airline has said.

The head of Senegal's leading opposition party has said he will appear before a judge to answer questions over rape allegations.

Local church officials say 164 civilians have been killed in Dengolat, with most of the deaths occurring on 30 November.

Hundreds of civilians in Cabo Delgado killed by rebels, gov’t forces and private militia, Amnesty says.

Nearly four million coronavirus jabs have arrived in Nigeria, making Africa's most populous nation the latest country to receive vaccines from Covax.

Egyptian authorities have executed 11 people convicted of murder, a security source has said, in what rights campaigners have labelled "a horrifying execution spree".

Jihadists linked to the Islamic State have attacked a UN base and overrun a humanitarian hub in Nigeria, trapping 25 aid workers, security and humanitarian sources have said.

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.

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