AFRICA HIGHLIGHTS

Zimbabwe’s Election Commission failed to produce the voters roll in time for hundreds of candidates to be processed through nomination courts.

At least 15 people were killed in violence in northern and central Nigeria, police and local officials said on Thursday.

The attackers lured the victims from their homes in the dead of night by shouting "thief", gunning down those who ventured out to intervene.

Taxi drivers who might be ferrying the sick in an infected city of more than 1 million say they are on the front lines and should receive the vaccine.