Somalia's new President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said on Friday he is isolating after testing positive for Covid-19, shortly after returning from a trip to the United Arab Emirates.
The number of Ukrainians crossing into Poland has again surpassed those going back, reversing a month-long trend, Polish data showed on Friday.
Gunmen have kidnapped 22 farmers from their fields just outside Nigeria's capital Abuja, local police said Friday, in the latest wave of mass abductions in the country.
Tunisia's President Kais Saied is the target of "serious threats", the interior ministry said Friday, 11 months since the head of state staged a dramatic power grab.
An Ethiopian rebel group called Friday for an independent probe into mass killings in the west of the country, saying the government could not be trusted to carry out an impartial investigation.
Some 2,000 migrants made their way to the Medilla border at dawn and over 500 managed to enter the border control area after cutting a fence with shears, the Spanish government's local delegation said in a statement.
Foreign, agriculture and development ministers from around the world are in Berlin on Friday for a conference on food security amid concerns the Ukraine conflict could cause hunger in some countries.
Humanitarian agencies have said the fuel Addis Ababa is allowing them to deliver to the region was insufficient and warned that the shortages were crippling the distribution of emergency aid.
African Union chief Macky Sall will visit Kyiv soon, Ukraine's foreign minister said, adding that he hopes the trip will help step up pressure on Russia to end its invasion.
Zambia's President Hakainde Hichilema said Thursday his country is "well placed" to weather the global food crisis worsened by the war in Ukraine.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson held talks with Rwanda's President Paul Kagame on Thursday on their migrant deal that has provoked a storm of outrage.
The head of Tunisia's powerful UGTT trade union confederation on Thursday rejected conditions set by the International Monetary Fund for a new loan to bail out the country's struggling economy.
Africa must wean itself off dependence on food and medicine imports, the president of the African Development Bank (AfDB) said, as the institution approved creation of a pharmaceutical tech foundation and began processing requests for food relief.
Mali's army on Thursday said it had carried out air strikes against al-Qaeda affiliated Macina Katiba jihadists in the country's centre following the massacre of at least 132 civilians.
About 7.1 million Somalis -- nearly half the population -- are battling hunger, with more than 200,000 on the brink of starvation, according to UN figures issued earlier this month.
Nigeria's government on Thursday reversed a decision to stay away from international basketball for two years on account of a long-drawn power tussle in the leadership of the sport in the country.
Rights groups appealed Wednesday for the next UN rights chief to be appointed through a swift, open process, calling for a "courageous" nominee to stand up to powerful countries.
Britain's Prince Charles on Wednesday heard harrowing testimony of the genocide in Rwanda from survivors and perpetrators of the 1994 killings during the first visit to the country by a British royal.
South Africa's consumer prices rose to a five-year high in May, exceeding the central bank's stated target, official data showed Wednesday.
The African Union has said it will not be party to talks that exclude significant actors in an effort to get Sudan's transition back on track after last year's military coup.
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