African migrants gathered on a beach in Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta on Monday, holding a makeshift 'lottery' to decide who would get the chance to register at the city's overwhelmed CETI reception centre.

Urban and inter-departmental public transport in Santa Cruz de la Sierra is operating with a heavily reduced fleet, the result of the diesel shortage that has hit the country since May. 

Transport companies have cut frequencies and rescheduled journeys due to the lack of fuel.

The final buses carrying Malawian returnees from South Africa arrived in Mwanza on Friday, ending a government-funded programme that brought home more than 56,700 people.

Returnees were observed unloading belongings and undergoing checks before receiving aid.

Mali's transitional president Assimi Goita has granted a presidential pardon to French national Yann Vezilier, two months after he was sentenced to 20 years in prison over an alleged plot to destabilise the military-led government.

Migrants stranded in Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta are building makeshift camps along the beach as overcrowded reception centres struggle to cope with the latest migration crisis.

A reported gold discovery in Kenya's West Pokot County has sparked a rush to Cheparor village, drawing fortune seekers hoping to turn what lies beneath the soil into a new source of income.
 

Families living along Kenya's Lake Baringo say rising waters are driving crocodiles and hippos closer to their homes, turning everyday trips for water and food into potentially deadly encounters.

Members of Venezuela's National Assembly representing Chavismo and a sector of the Venezuelan opposition on Thursday set up a dialogue table backed by the United States in a new attempt to set a political transition on track in the country and agreed to keep talks going through August 12.

Inspired by a promise to his late blind grandmother, a 23-year-old South African computer science student has taken his AI-powered smart glasses for blind and visually impaired people to the global stage at the LEAP East technology competition in Hong Kong.

At least three people were killed after torrential rain triggered severe flooding and a landslide in the coastal city of Limbe, south-west Cameroon, early Wednesday.

Footage shows fast-moving floodwater sweeping through streets as residents and vehicles struggle through the deluge.