The World Health Organization, W.H.O.’s global dashboard of Covid-19 says 263,000 new cases were reported in the previous 24 hours, while 856 new Covid-19 deaths had been reported in the past week.

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.

The young army captain who led the latest coup in Burkina Faso, Ibrahim Traore, will be inaugurated as interim president on Friday, the constitutional council announced Wednesday.

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.

 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.