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The World Health Organization says only one in four health workers in Africa has been fully vaccinated against Covid-19, leaving the bulk of the workforce on the front lines of the pandemic dangerously exposed. It says "in…

Thousands of people in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, and other cities have held protests to keep up the pressure on the country's military leaders. In the capital's twin city of Omdurman, security forces fired tear gas at…

A Danish frigate has killed four pirates in waters south of Nigeria in an operation to protect shipping in the Gulf of Guinea, the Danish military said on Thursday. The Esbern Snare, deployed last month to the Gulf of Guinea amid…

The Gambia’s final report of a probe into alleged human rights violations during the 22-year iron-fist rule of former President Yayha Jammeh is set to be handed to the government on Thursday. The release had previously been…

A Somali was one of the two people who survived the "fatal attempt to cross the English Channel that separates the UK from France." French Interior Minister, Gerald Darmanin said. The other survivor was from Iraq. At least…

Police in Somalia have confirmed the death of eight civilians in a car bombing in the capital Mogadishu, state television has reported. An al-Shabab suicide bomber driving "an explosives-laden vehicle targeted a convoy of a…

The government in Burkina Faso has extended the suspension of mobile internet services. The internet was to be restored on Wednesday, after being suspended for four days. The cut to mobile internet services came amid…

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called for an immediate end to the fighting in Ethiopia. Mr. Guterres, who was visiting Colombia to mark five years since a peace deal was signed with former Revolutionary Armed Forces…

Residents in rebel-controlled areas in Ethiopia's Amhara region have not been receiving aid from international agencies, a spokesman for the regional government's disaster relief agency has said. “Innocent people are dying due…

Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta is on a two-day official visit to South Africa, where he has held talks with his host Cyril Ramaphosa on a wide range of issues. On the thorny issue of visas, which are seen as onerous to…