At least 19 people were killed and five injured after a truck in which they were travelling plunged into a river in northern Zambia, police said.
Source
Wardens at Mozambique's largest women's prison are forcing inmates into prostitution and punishing those who refuse, according to a local anti-corruption organisation.
Source
A former presidential aide in DR Congo who had been sentenced to 20 years in a high-profile corruption case has had his term reduced by seven years on appeal, his lawyer said.
Source
Eritrean troops in Ethiopia's Tigray region are expected to "definitely leave soon," Ethiopia's U.N. envoy said after a top U.N. official told the Security Council on Tuesday that Eritrea's soldiers were using starvation as a wea
Source
A Zimbabwean freelance reporter for the New York Times was granted bail Tuesday, three weeks after he was arrested over claims he helped two foreign colleagues enter the country fraudulently.
Source
Nightclubs in the DR Congo must close and funeral wakes will be banned for two weeks in the face of a third wave of Covid cases, President Felix Tshisekedi said on Tuesday.
Source
The United States said it would ban the entry of two former government ministers from Namibia whose alleged acceptance of bribes caused a political uproar in 2019.
Source
After banning Twitter, Nigerian ministers apparently met with Chinese counterparts to discuss replicating China’s "Great Firewall" to regulate social media.
Source
Burkina Faso's army has said that troops had killed around 10 "terrorists" in security operations following the deadliest massacre in the country's jihadist insurgency.
Source
Zambia's former president Kenneth Kaunda, 97, is being treated for pnuemonia at a military hospital in the capital Lusaka, his office said on Tuesday.
Source
