Zimbabwe will hold elections in four to five months, a newspaper on Thursday quoted President Emmerson Mnangagwa as saying, the first time since independence the southern African state will conduct a vote that does not involve Robert Mugabe. Mnangagw took power from Mugabe, who was forced to resign after a defacto military coup, was speaking during an official trip to Mozambique, the official herald newspapers reported.

Uganda is set to launch blood drives to try to address a severe shortage of blood in the country.

The blood bank facility in the capital Kampala is reported to be practically empty, with only about 100 units of blood available, rather than the thousand-plus units required every day.

The World Health Organization recommends that blood collections should be at least 1% percent of a country's population.

Liberia’s outgoing president has been expelled from her own party, for allegedly failing to support its candidate to succeed her.  The Unity Party issued a statement "the behavior of the expelled persons ... constitutes sabotage and undermined the existence of the party". The release also said the expelled persons had violated party rules requiring Party members to support all Unity Party candidates in elections.

Police in South Africa have fired rubber bullets and stun grenades to try and break up a protest outside an Afrikaans medium school just south of Johannesburg.

The demonstrators are accusing the school of racism for not admitting 55 English-speaking students.

Tires were burned as groups waving flags from both the ANC and the opposition EFF parties demonstrated outside the school.

Unrest in Cameroon’s English-speaking regions, which is that country’s cocoa-growing heartland, is fuelling bean smuggling into neighbouring Nigeria, farmers and buyers said on Tuesday.

Cameroon has been gripped by spiralling violence since November 2016, when government forces crushed a peaceful movement of Anglophone teachers and lawyers protesting against their perceived marginalisation by the French-speaking majority.

Violent clashes between separatists and security forces have cut many Cameroonian buyers off from parts of the Southwest region, source of roughly half of Cameroon’s total production which reached around 240,000 tonnes last season.

Ghana's foreign ministry has denied reports that it has summoned the US ambassador to the country over the derogatory remarks made by President Donald Trump against African countries and Haitians.