A warning in Zimbabwe that people will face restrictions if they are not fully immunised against Covid-19 sparked a rush to vaccination sites struggling to meet surging demand.

Heavily-armed criminals have shot down a fighter jet in Nigeria's north west Zamfara state, the air force said, adding that the pilot had safely ejected and evaded capture.

Military intervention in Tunisia, a fast-filling cemetery in Namibia, a harsh lockdown in Uganda, and campaign rallies in Zambia.

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Three Chinese nationals and two Mauritanians were kidnapped in southwest Mali on Saturday, the country's armed forces said, in the latest attack in the war-torn Sahel state.

In his first public appearance since riots, King Mswati blamed protesters for the killing of civilians and slammed activists.

Nigeria’s Federal Inland Revenue Service says the decision to freeze MultiChoice accounts was as a result of the group’s under-remittance of taxes and continued refusal to grant the authority access to its servers for audit.

Senegal's President Macky Sall threatened on Friday to close the borders and re-impose a state of emergency after the country registered a new record number of daily Covid-19 cases for the third time in a week.

The five months that two transgender women in Cameroon spent in prison were "hell", one of them told Reuters on Friday after they were released, describing how they were initially forced to sleep with chains around their legs.

Security forces fired at protesters in eSwatini, while the king held a dialogue at his royal residence.

Despite calls for a more representative democracy, King Mswati III has announced the appointment of a new prime minister.

Deaths rose from 4 348 deaths in the first week of July, to 6 273, for the week ending 11 July.

The Southern African Development Community's Standby Force was supposed to be deployed to Mozambique on Thursday, but unrest in South Africa may have prevented this.

The technical fact-finding mission is the fulfilment of a promise from an earlier visit from the ministerial delegation from the SADC Organ Troika on Politics, Defence and Security earlier this month.

Seven women were trampled to death in north east Nigeria in a crush during a food distribution by the International Committee of the Red Cross.

Mozambique has lodged an official request for military intervention from neighbouring countries to help quell a jihadist insurgency in the gas-rich north, the defence minister said Thursday.

Kenyan police are holding a man described as a "bloodthirsty vampire" accused of the grisly murders of at least 10 children.

The new laws expand the definition of terrorism to the internet era, but activists say they are too far-reaching.

Amnesty International said on Thursday that migrants held in Libyan detention camps are subject to horrific sexual violence at the hands of guards, including being forced to barter sex for clean water, food and access to sanitation.

Rwanda will put the capital Kigali and eight other districts across the country under lockdown from Saturday to rein in surging coronavirus cases and deaths, officials said.