An entire herd of elephants from a British zoo will be released into the wild in Kenya in what conservationists have hailed as a world first.

At least 26 students and a teacher have been rescued after armed men raided a private secondary school in Nigeria's northwestern Kaduna State early Monday and kidnapped scores of people, said police.

After succeeding in a last-ditch legal effort to delay his arrest for contempt of court, former South African President Jacob Zuma likened his treatment to Apartheid-era detention without trial.

Jacob Zuma and his lawyers successfully delayed the former South African president's prison sentence for contempt of court on Saturday when the country's top court agreed to hear his application for a review of their decision to sentence him to 15 months in prison.

Namibian sprinters Christine Mboma and Beatrice Masilingi have been ruled ineligible to compete in the women's 400m at the Tokyo Olympics due to naturally high testosterone levels, the Namibia National Olympic Committee and Commonwealth Games Association (NNOC-CGA) said in a statement Friday.

Food and fuel is running out in the capital of Ethiopia's war-torn northern Tigray region, a CNN producer on the ground in Mekelle reports.

When Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019, he was lauded as a regional peacemaker. Now, he is presiding over a protracted civil war that by many accounts bears the hallmarks of genocide and has the potential to destabilize the wider Horn of Africa region.

Nigerian separatist leader, Nnamdi Kanu, was located and brought back to Nigeria to face trial for terrorism, Nigeria's Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, said in a press conference Tuesday.

Rebel forces in the war-torn Ethiopian region of Tigray have rejected a ceasefire offer from the central government, raising fears of further violence a day after the fighters retook the regional capital Mekelle.

The African Union (AU) and Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) have voiced "concern" over the equitable treatment of people who received Covid-19 shots through the COVAX initiative, after it emerged that Europe's digital 'green pass' does not recognize a vaccine that was donated to many African countries.

South Africa's highest court found former President Jacob Zuma guilty of contempt of court and sentenced him to 15 months in prison on Tuesday, a landmark move in the country's long-running corruption saga.

As Victoria Chiamaka Udeh strutted confidently down the runway during a beauty pageant in Russia, brandishing her country's red-stained flag, she thought only of one thing -- the young people who lost their lives during the #EndSars protests in Nigeria last year.

Algerian authorities have seized half a ton of cocaine floating off the country's coast, after fishermen in the area raised the alarm.

In South Africa, the free-spirited free diver is creating a more diverse and inclusive ocean for young kids in her home country.

South Africa's government is considering allowing women to have multiple husbands, a possibility that has thrown the country's conservatives into uproar.

South Africa has entered at least two weeks of strict lockdown to combat a devastating third wave of Covid-19 linked to the more transmissible Delta variant.

Award-winning Nigerian musician Davido was spotted giving a free concert to kids at a beach house in Nigeria.

A few scattered human bones lay on the rocky ground, along with a broken skull and several half-burned identification cards.

A TV journalist alleged that he and his colleagues had not been paid by their network employers -- live on air.