Tunisia’s parliamentary speaker has been denied access into parliament after the president suspended the house. Rached Ghannouchi has staged a sit-in outside parliament’s gate as... Read more

The foreign minister of Equatorial Guinea Simeon Oyono Esono has told state television that the country’s embassy in London is closing in response to British sanctions imposed on the p... Read more

A high court judge in Nigeria has adjourned the terrorism and treason trial of the detained secessionist leader, Nnamdi Kanu, after he was not presented to the court. The prosecution did not... Read more

Twenty-eight of the more than 100 students abducted earlier this month from a secondary school in the northern Nigerian state of Kaduna have been freed. The pupils, from the Bethel... Read more

Tunisia’s president has sacked the prime minister and suspended parliament, after violent protests broke out across the country. Thousands of protesters, angry at the government’... Read more

A man accused of trying to stab Mali’s interim president, Assimi Goïta, last week has died in hospital while under guard, the government says. The assailant, who has not been identifie... Read more