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It comes after militiamen attacked army positions, close to the presidential palace, overnight.

Cricket South Africa lodges an official complaint with the sport's world governing body over Australia's late withdrawal from planned tour.

A selection of the week's best photos from across the continent.

The jihadist abduction and killing of mountaineer Hervé Gourdel in Algeria in 2014 prompted outrage.

People set fire to a big shiny pillar that appeared in Kinshasa sparking fears over its origins.

Frontline workers and President Ramaphosa have been among the first in South Africa to take the vaccine,

No official reason has been given for the death of Seif Sharif Hamad at the age of 77.

Paul Rusesabagina says he was abducted in Dubai and brought to Rwanda to stand trial.

Obinwanne Okeke used Nigerian-based companies to defraud people in the US.

Butterfly farming along the Kenyan coast is a source of income and a way of conserving the local forest.

A headcount is being done to see how many were abducted in the attack on the boarding school.

Zimbabwe has 200,000 Sinopharm doses, although the efficacy level against the variant is unclear.

Residents say they have seen bodies floating in the water after the overcrowded boat crashed.

Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona denies leading attacks on Muslims in the Central African Republic (CAR).

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala says rich countries should not be allowed to vaccinate their people as poorer countries wait.

The shark population off Congo-Brazzaville is threatened as desperate fishermen search deeper waters.

South Africa's ex-president ignores a summons to appear before an anti-corruption inquiry.

Four cases have been confirmed since a resurgence of the virus was announced on 7 February.

The archaeological find in the Abydos burial ground is thought to date back about 5,000 years.

A teenager caught up in Ethiopia's Tigray conflict tells of her and her grandfather's near-death encounter.