Ethiopian authorities say they have taken control of three towns in Tigray, the embattled northern region that has seen a resurgence of fighting since August.

A three-week lockdown has been declared in two districts of Uganda as the country battles an Ebola outbreak.

The United States Justice Department has fined Lafarge, a French cement company, with $778 million after pleading guilty to making payments to terrorists to retain its operations in Syria.

The United Nations children agency, UNICEF, says four million children have been pushed into poverty across Eastern Europe and Central Asia as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and rising inflation.

President Muhammadu Buhari Wednesday received a Special Envoy from President Julius Mada Bio of Sierra Leone, wishing the West African country best of luck in its general elections billed for June, next year.

Despite macroeconomic headwinds, advances in sophistication, depth and transparency of African capital markets represent a considerable plus, stated David Marsh, Chairman, OMFIF as South Africa, Mauritius and Nigeria have maintained their positions in the top three this year on the Absa Africa Financial Markets Index (AFMI), as they continue to score highly on the measures of market depth, transparency and enforceability of legal agreements.

The situation in Mali continues to justify sustained international attention and engagement, the top UN official in the West African country, El-Ghassim Wane, told the Security Council on Tuesday.

Experts on Science, Technology and Innovation, STI, from the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, have convened in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital to strengthen collaborations in the sector.