The leader of Zambia’s biggest opposition party, Hakainde Hichilema, has alleged the government is plotting to kill him. Mr Hichilema is facing accusations of using his position as a consult... Read more
The Zimbabwean government has announced that schools will be reopened in two weeks for students who will sit for examinations later in the year. Those preparing to sit for Cambridge examinat... Read more
Tunisia’s parliament has approved the new government formed by Prime Minister-designate Hichem Mechichi. Mr Mechichi appointed technocrats in his government as opposed to members of po... Read more
Malawi’s new President Lazarus Chakwera has reappointed the country’s army commander sacked by his predecessor after troops protected protesters contesting elections marred by fr... Read more
Mali’s ousted President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta has been admitted to a hospital in the capital Bamako, the Associated Press reports. It quoted two anonymous sources at a clinic where th... Read more
Mali’s coup leaders say that ousted President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta has been released from detention, and is at his home. He was arrested during last Tuesday’s military takeover... Read more
A man has been arrested in London on suspicion of war crimes during the Liberian civil wars. The 45-year-old man is accused of offences relating to the country’s first and second civil... Read more
US oil giant Exxon Mobil says it is giving aid worth $50,000 (£38,000) to help families displaced by the militant Islamist insurgency in Mozambique’s gas-rich northern province of Cabo... Read more
Master KG, the South African musician and producer of hit song Jerusalema, reached another milestone on Wednesday when the song reached 100 million views on YouTube. Jerusalema has been a ma... Read more
West African mediators say the leaders of last week’s coup in Mali want to stay in power for a three-year transition period. But the Ecowas team say they told the coup leaders that an... Read more
The Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) has suspended Mali from its membership, the latest body to take action following last week’s overthrow of Ibrahim Boubacar Keït... Read more
Ethiopian Foreign Ministry Redwan Hussein has held talks with UK embassy Charge d’ affaires after chaos broke out during protests held outside Ethiopia’s embassy in London. Mr Redwan e... Read more
The authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo say the world’s largest measles outbreak that killed more than 7,000 children has now ended. Efforts to stop its spread were hampere... Read more
Ivory Coast’s former President Laurent Gbagbo has been barred from running for the presidency in upcoming elections after a court upheld the electoral commission’s decision to re... Read more
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