Your Africa updates: What happened on the continent this past week

Nigeria has launched military campaigns against bandits in the northwest before and even sought amnesty deals to coax them to abandon hideouts deep in the region's vast forests.

Minerals Council aims to get 80% of its workforce vaccinated by November

Inflation rose well beyond the Reserve Bank’s midpoint target in August

Branding itself as a corruption busting party, ActionSA said it will establish dedicated independent forensics units in each of its municipalities, with the mandate to investigate all potential corrupt activities

The organisation has sent another letter to staff members saying that salaries for July, August and September will not be paid on 25 September

‘He was like a loving father,’ says community member of murdered teacher in Philippi, Western Cape

Moving the national senior certificate exams forward also allows matrics who are old enough to cast their ballots on 1 November

Fans are desperate to return but authorities in the sector have shown little appetite to tackle difficult questions

The Botswana middle-distance runner suffered an injury in qualifiers and could not make a podium finish in the finals. Though gutted, he is hard at work again and hopes to do better in the next Games

To understand more about what’s going on in South America’s most populous country, and what might happen next, The Continent spoke to João Bosco Monte, the head of the Brazil Africa Institute

Aaron White was six years old in New York City when the Towers fell. For the lucky ones, life just moved on