{Former vocalist and founding member of British reggae group UB40 — which rose to fame in the 1980s with hits like Red, Red Wine and Can't Help Falling In Love — has died at the age of 64, his band members confirmed.}

{Toby, the world's oldest white rhino, has died at the age of 54 in a zoo in northern Italy, a spokeswoman for the establishment said Tuesday.}

{Seven soldiers and 15 members of a notorious armed Islamist group have died in three days of clashes in northeastern DR Congo, the army said Tuesday.}

{Washington on Thursday labelled the ADF militia, suspected of hundreds of civilian killings in the Democratic Republic of Congo's east, a "foreign terrorist organisation" linked to the so-called Islamic State (IS) group.}

{Libyan soldiers on Wednesday freed 120 would-be migrants held captive and tortured by human traffickers in the northern town of Bani Walid, the army said.}

{Goodwill Zwelithini, the controversial but revered king of South Africa's Zulus, died Friday aged 72 after weeks in hospital, his palace announced. }

{Britain and Nigeria on Tuesday signed a deal to return £4.2 million recovered from a former governor of oil-rich Delta state, who served a jail term in London for fraud.}

{Women in Africa are less likely to die from Covid-19 than men, but more likely to succumb to maternal complications due to limited access to reproductive services since the pandemic started, the UN said Thursday citing reports.}

{A Burundian peacekeeper was killed Friday during an ambush by rebels in the Central African Republic, the United Nations said, the fifth soldier killed since a rebel offensive broke out in the country.}

{Central African Republic President Faustin-Archange Touadera was re-elected in the first round of the December 27 election with 53.9 percent of the vote, the electoral commission announced Monday, delivering results that must be officially validated by the constitutional court after possible appeals.}