The Malawi government will destroy more than 16,000 Covid-19 vaccines that reached their expiry date, the health minister has been quoted by the AFP news agency as saying. The vaccines were... Read more

The Dutch owners of a ship whose 15 crew members were kidnapped off the coast of Benin last month says they have been freed. De Poli Tankers said the crew of its chemical tanker Davide B wer... Read more

Junior doctors in Sierra Leone have gone on strike over an alleged assault on one of their colleagues working at the country’s main referral hospital. It follows a strike by cleaners that le... Read more

South Africa’s ex-President Jacob Zuma has rejected as “a sham” a request by the country’s top court to suggest what punishment he should face if found guilty of contempt o... Read more

At least 20 children have died after they became trapped in a fire at a school in Niger’s capital, Niamey. The fire started late on Monday afternoon when the children were attending le... Read more

UN human rights experts have called on the Ugandan government to stop what they call a brutal crackdown on political opponents which began in the lead-up to January’s disputed elections. The... Read more

Blaise Compaore, the former president of Burkina Faso, is to stand trial for the murder of Thomas Sankara, the man who he ousted in 1987, a military tribunal has announced. Mr Compaore was f... Read more

Sudan has closed its eastern border with Ethiopia after an increase in coronavirus infections in Al-Qadarif state, the Sudan Tribune news website has reported. Al-Qadarif state is one of the... Read more

Reports say suspected jihadist fighters have killed two Nigerian soldiers in the north-eastern part of the country. The soldiers were reportedly gunned down in an ambush while attempting to... Read more

Tanzania’s main opposition party Chadema has requested a meeting with President Samia Suluhu Hassan. Chadema chairman Freeman Mbowe said he had written a letter to President Samia aski... Read more

Somalia’s police chief General Abdi Hijar has sacked Mogadishu police commander Sadaq Omar Hassan, popularly known as Sadaq John, after he announced that he stopped the country’s... Read more

Benin’s President Patrice Talon lauded the conduct of Sunday’s elections saying his country had proven “expertise” in managing elections. Mr Talon is widely expected... Read more

People in Chad have been voting in a presidential election that is expected to give one of Africa’s longest-serving leaders a sixth term. President Idriss Déby, who seized power in a m... Read more

At least 40 people were burnt alive after a bus carrying flammable cargo crashed and burst into flames in Democratic of Congo’s province of Kwilu, east of the capital Kinshasa, officials say... Read more