AFRICA HIGHLIGHTS

It would take Nigeria 25 years to produce an adequate number of doctors to cater for its population, says the head of the Nigerian Medical Association

Polls opened in Algeria on Thursday for a delayed presidential election that is opposed by a mass protest movement.

An attack on a military camp in western Niger has left 71 military personnel dead, according to an army statement.

The 24-year-old mother, who preferred to remain anonymous, told the newspaper that her baby's head was ripped from the body, allegedly by a doctor who was attending to her during the delivery on Sunday at the Windhoek Central Hospital.