The leading opposition presidential candidate in Republic of Congo was receiving oxygen at a private hospital after being diagnosed with COVID-19, a family member said, casting Sunday’s election into doubt on the eve of the vote.

Mourners line the streets and gather at a church in Dar es Salaam to remember Tanzania's late president John Magufuli, before he is transported to the Uhuru National Stadium where he will lie in state.

The president took oath of office on Friday at State House in Dar es Salaam, a day after announcing the death of her predecessor from a heart disease.

Soldiers have been reinforced in Western Niger, where suspected jihadists attacked on Monday. The attack left 66 people killed, according to the Nigerien Interior Minister.

TVC News Benue State Correspondent gathered that the incident happened on Saturday Morning at Tyo Mu along Makurdi/Gboko road in Makurdi Local Government Area of the state.

Nearly 200 people have been killed and 40,000 have been displaced since January following a surge of attacks by the ADF militia in the northeast Democratic Republic of Congo, the UN said on Friday.

US President Joe Biden is sending a senator to Ethiopia to raise with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed his grave concerns over the crisis in the northern region of Tigray, the allegations of human rights abuses and the risk of broader instability.

Goodwill Zwelithini, the 72-year-old king of the Zulu nation in South Africa, was laid to rest at a private ceremony shrouded in secrecy and attended only by a select group of royal men in the early hours of Thursday morning. Yet the days leading up to his funeral have opened a rare window into the customs and values surrounding the final rites of passage of a Zulu monarch.

Samia Suluhu Hassan is a soft-spoken, Muslim woman thrust from the obscure role of vice president to become Tanzania's first female leader after John Magufuli's sudden death.