French energy giant Total has shut its operations and withdrawn all staff from a site in northern Mozambique following last week's deadly jihadist attack in the area, security sources said on Friday.

A new investigation details how President Hage Geingob allegedly instructed associates to embezzle millions of dollars.

French energy giant Total has shut its operations and withdrawn all staff from a site in northern Mozambique following last week's deadly jihadist attack in the area, security sources said Friday.

Kenya has ordered an immediate halt to imports of Covid-19 vaccines by private companies, the health minister said on Friday, saying such shipments were unlicensed and potentially dangerous because the shots could be counterfeit.

Several other soldiers wounded in attack on MINUSMA’s base in Aguelhok, peacekeeping mission says.

Mohamed Bazoum, sworn in on Friday as president of the troubled Sahel state of Niger, worked for years as the right-hand man of his predecessor Mahamadou Issoufou.

The British charity says two staff members suspended as part of an investigation into alleged sexual misconduct.

The owners of the giant container ship filed a lawsuit against the Evergreen Marine Corporation in the UK's High Court, according to The Lawyer.

Egypt may try to collect compensation for the time, equipment, and effort that went into freeing the boat, but it is not clear who will foot the bill.

The G7 group of leading nations has called for the “swift” withdrawal of Eritrean troops from Ethiopia’s conflict-hit northern Tigray region, as the International Crisis Group (ICG) warned of a prolonged deadlock.

Niger's newly-elected president Mohamed Bazoum is set to be sworn into office on Friday, a democratic watershed overshadowed by jihadist violence and alleged coup bid two days ago.

More than a week after jihadists staged a deadly raid on the northern Mozambican town of Palma, survivors on Thursday streamed into the port of Pemba, capital of gas-rich Cabo Delgado province.

PEMBA, April 1 - A boat carrying more than 1,000 survivors of a highly organised, deadly attack by Islamic State-linked insurgents in northern Mozambique arrived in the port of Pemba on Thursday, a Reuters reporter and a diplomatic source said.

The novel coronavirus has killed at least 2 816 908 people since the outbreak emerged in China in December 2019, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP.

More than 8 100 people have reached safety outside the northern Mozambican town of Palma a week after it was besieged by jihadists, the UN has said, as thousands of others remained stranded.

British journalist Tom Bowker, who has had a base in Mozambique for six-and-a-half years, believes his reporting on the conflict in the country, and not bureaucracy, was behind his recent deportation and the decision to bar him for 10 years.

Niger thwarted an "attempted coup" the government said, two days before the historic inauguration of Mohamed Bazoum as president of the unstable Sahel nation.

More than 5 000 people have reached safety outside the northern Mozambican town of Palma a week after it was besieged by jihadists, the UN says, as thousands remained stranded.

A deadly assault by Islamic State-linked militants in Mozambique could delay plans by Total to build a massive liquefied natural gas facility, analysts warn, although the project is still likely to go forward.

A deadly assault by Islamic State-linked militants in Mozambique could delay plans by Total to build a massive liquefied natural gas facility, analysts warn, although the project is still likely to go forward.