Eritrean soldiers killed hundreds of civilians in Ethiopia’s ancient town of Axum between November 28 and 29, rights group Amnesty International said on Friday.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) says it has gathered evidence of a revenge attack nearly a year ago by Cameroonian soldiers on a village where they raped at least 20 women.
Unidentified gunmen kidnapped 317 schoolgirls from the town of Jangebe in northwest Nigeria on Friday, police said, the second such kidnapping in little over a week.
Ivory Coast received a shipment of COVID-19 doses from the COVAX vaccine-sharing facility on Friday, becoming the second country to benefit from a programme meant to ensure fairer distribution amid a global scramble.
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has made an urgent appeal for more than a $100 million to ease severe shortages in the Ethiopia's northern region of Tigray.
Tanzanian Professor of life sciences and bio-engineering, Hulda Swai, has been declared the 2020 winner of the African Union (AU), Kwame Nkrumah Continental Awards for Scientific Excellence.
Zimbabwe will buy an additional 1.2 million COVID-19 vaccine doses from China at a preferential price, President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s spokesperson said on Wednesday, after Beijing agreed to give more free doses to the southern African country.