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A copper mine in Zambia is shutting on Wednesday due to disruption brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, reports Reuters news agency.

Reuters says that global mining company Glencore made the announcement in a statement.

But, the news agency added, Zambia's Mining Minister Richard Musukwa said the government would block the mine shutdown that would put 11,000 jobs at risk.

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An Italian priest who was kidnapped in Niger in September 2018 has been seen in a video by Islamist militants, the AFP news agency reports the newspaper Air Info as saying.

If this is true, it is the first proof of life since his abduction, AFP adds.

AFP says that Air Info published a screenshot showing 59-year-old Catholic priest Pier Luigi Maccalli wearing grey clothes and with a long white beard.

Until now they had no evidence that the priest was still alive, communications officer for the Catholic mission in Niger Thomas Codjovi is quoted by AFP as saying.

In September 2018 residents of Bomoanga village - located more than 100km (62 miles) from the capital, Niamey - said armed men arrived and seized the priest.

The Catholic Society of African Missions (Sam) said at the time that Fr Maccalli had lived in Niger for 11 years. They said he has been actively promoting the development of education, healthcare and the training of young farmers in the southwest's Gourmancé area.

Militant Islamists are known to be active near the borders with Mali and Burkina Faso.

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As Libya continues to record new cases of coronavirus, there has been no let-up in the ongoing conflict to control the capital, Tripoli.

Earlier this week a key hospital came under fire. The grounds of Tripoli's al-Khadra Hospital was hit by missiles, according to officials there.

It has 400 beds and is one of the few health facilities that can be used to combat coronavirus infections.

The attack prompted a damning statement by the UN’s humanitarian co-ordinator for Libya.

In a statement, Yacoub El Hillo described the shelling as a “clear violation of international Humanitarian law”.

Mr Hillo told the BBC that the continued fighting and threat of coronavirus combined endangers Libya’s health system.

Covid-19 and armed conflict are now colliding in Libya and together they pose the greatest threat to life since the start of the war nine years ago. The health system in this, potentially very rich but in reality very poor, country is stretched to the limits and an outbreak of the virus will bring it to complete collapse.

The fighting parties must stop killing innocent civilians now and focus on defeating the virus.”

The conflict in Tripoli has intensified in recent weeks.

The fighting started a year ago, when forces commanded by the East Libya Gen Khalifa Haftar, launched an attack on the capital to control it.

Their rivals are the internationally recognised government there and armed groups loyal to it.

Last month, both warring parties claimed they would observe a humanitarian ceasefire – but this never happened, with each side blaming the other for violating it.

In a tweet, Libya’s ambassador and permanent representative to the UN in New York, Taher al-Sonni, described the latest shelling as a “terror attack by Gen Haftar’s militias”.

To date, the country officially has 19 confirmed cases of coronavirus but it has tested fewer than 400 people.

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The United States says it has killed a founding member of the militant Islamist group al-Shabab, Yusuf Jiis, in an airstrike in Somalia.

There has been no word so far from al-Shabab.

The commander of US Africa Command, Gen Stephen Townsend, described Jiis as a brutal, ruthless killer who held senior positions in al-Shabab.

He carried out attacks inside and outside Somalia.

The US has significantly increased attacks there since US President Donald Trump took office.

A number of powerful Somali militants have been killed in US air attacks.

But every time a jihadist is killed, another one seems to be waiting in the wings.

Al-Shabab maintains an ability to strike targets and control territory.

Gen Townsend said that the US considered pausing its operations in Somalia because of coronavirus.

But it chose to continue because, as he put it, the leaders of al-Qaeda, al-Shabab and the Islamic State group have announced they see the pandemic as an opportunity to further their "terrorist agenda".

Rights groups say they have evidence that several civilians have been killed in the US attacks. America rarely acknowledges that it has killed civilians in Somalia.

• Read: US in East Africa: Is it still a safe haven for al-Shabab?

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A new swarm of locusts has invaded parts of the north-eastern and eastern regions of Uganda, putting at risk June's harvests.

Largely made up young locusts, it arrived four days ago in a district bordering western Kenya and has since gone inland to other areas.

The country’s commissioner in charge of crop protection, Byantwale Tibejuka, estimates the swarm to be about five sq km (two sq miles) wide.

Local authorities say the pests are already causing damage to farmlands.

Efforts to control the invasion have been slowed by current restrictions in movement to stop the spread of coronavirus and a $4.2m (£3.4m) shortfall in funding.

The country experienced an invasion in February of smaller groups of mature locusts.

More locusts are expected in the following months as new swarms continue to form in neighbouring Kenya, southern Ethiopia and Somalia.

• Read: How a single locust becomes a plague