The masterminds of Mali’s coup that ousted President Ibrahim Keïta on Tuesday include the deputy head of a military camp and a French-trained general. BBC Monitoring has profiled three... Read more
The soldiers who ousted Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta say they plan to set up a civilian transitional government and hold new elections. The spokesman for the soldiers said t... Read more
Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta has resigned, after being detained by soldiers on Tuesday. In a televised address he said he was also dissolving the government and parliament,... Read more
The Italian government says it will give $13m (£9.8m) to Tunisia, to help the country strengthen its maritime borders and stop hundreds of migrants crossing the Mediterranean in small boats.... Read more
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has reshuffled his cabinet dropping a former close ally, Defence Minister Lemma Megersa. Mr Lemma was recently suspended from the ruling party’s exe... Read more
The US government has filed fraud and money laundering charges against those behind an adoption scheme that placed Ugandan children who were not orphans with US families. Two Americans, Marg... Read more
Human rights campaigners are calling on the Egyptian authorities to release a group of female social media influencers who have been imprisoned for making videos which “breach Egyptian... Read more
The clean-up efforts after a devastating oil spill in Mauritius earlier this month “will take around a year”, according to oceanographer and environmental engineer Vassen Kauppay... Read more
At least 17 people are now believed to have died following a siege at a beach-side hotel in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu that was ended by special forces. More than a dozen others were... Read more
South Africa’s police minister has said the suspect who killed himself in police custody had confessed to the murders of several women in rural KwaZulu-Natal. Hundreds of community mem... Read more
Zambia’s President Edgar Lungu has accused the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) of having designs to dislodge him from power, according to a state-owned newspaper. “I have told y... Read more
Police in Ivory Coast have fired tear gas at opposition supporters protesting against President Alassane Ouattara’s decision to run for a third term in office. Demonstrators defied a b... Read more
A leading member of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood movement has died in prison after suffering a heart attack, media reports say. Essam al-Erian, 66, was arrested in 2013 following the ove... Read more
Kenyan journalist Yassin Juma, who has been in detention in Ethiopia since last month, has contracted Covid-19, his lawyer Kedir Bullo has told me. Mr Juma was due to appear in court in the... Read more
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