Hundreds of young people took to the streets of the Tunisian capital on Saturday to protest against police repression and demand the release of demonstrators detained in recent days.

Bangladeshi members of United Nations Peacekeeping Mission have rescued a Chinese team from armed rebels’ attack in Central African Republic’s Gaga region.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday urged wealthy countries not to hoard surplus Covid-19 vaccine supplies, adding his voice to calls for global production to be shared more equally.

The death toll from storm Eloise rose to at least 13 on Monday after heavy winds, rain and flooding destroyed buildings, drowned crops and displaced thousands in parts of southern Africa.

A tanker explosion in southern Nigeria has killed a woman and three children while severely burning 11 others, an official said Saturday, the latest in a series of such incidents in the West African nation.

Libyan envoys at UN-backed talks to end nearly a decade of war yesterday voted to pass the mechanism to choose an interim executive to govern until polls in December, the UN said.

Nigerian troops regained control of a military base in the northeast hours after it was seized by jihadists, sources told AFP yesterday.

At least 48 people died and 97 people were injured in a militia attack on the West Darfur city of El Geneina on Saturday, Sudan's state news agency SUNA said, citing a local doctors union.

An Algerian supporter of the Hirak protest movement was sentenced to three years in jail yesterday for satirical social media posts mocking the government and religion, a campaign group said.

Nigerian authorities have arrested five activists who were organising a an anti-government protest, severely beating the most prominent of them Omoyele Sowore, his lawyer said Saturday.

More than 300 schoolboys abducted last week by armed men in northwest Nigeria have been released, a government official said Thursday.

Tunisia recovered more bodies on Tuesday from a ship that sank off the Tunisian coast on Sunday while carrying African migrants, bringing the death toll to 17, a judicial official told Reuters.

About 50 people are feared dead after a gold mine collapsed in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo following torrential rain, local authorities said Saturday.

Paul Rusesabagina, portrayed in the film “Hotel Rwanda” as a hero who saved the lives of more than 1,200 people from the country’s 1994 genocide, has been arrested by the Rwandan government on terror charges, the country's police announces.

The independent Africa Regional Certification Commission (ARCC) for Polio Eradication has declared the region free of endemic wild polio, four years after the last case was recorded in Nigeria.

Militants storm a high-end seaside hotel in Mogadishu, killing at least seven people and wounding more than 20 as they detonated a car bomb then opened fire with assault rifles in the latest attack in the Somali capital.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has said it is a “lie” that fires are ravaging the Amazon rainforest, despite data from his own government showing the number of blazes is rising.

The number of forest fires in the Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetlands, has nearly tripled in 2020 compared to the same period last year, according to satellite data released Thursday. Brazil’s national space agency identified 3,506 fires from January 1 to July 22 in the Pantanal.

Bandits riding motorbikes killed 20 villagers in a string of attacks in Niger's western region of Tillaberi, the governor there tells AFP.

The Nigerian president's chief of staff, Abba Kyari, died after contracting the new coronavirus, two presidency spokesmen says on Twitter.