Burkina Faso’s government says 11 soldiers were found dead and around 50 civilians are missing following a suspected jihadist attack on a convoy. Twenty-eight other people, including 2... Read more

Kenyan lawyer Paul Gicheru, who was facing charges of witness interference at the International Criminal Court (ICC), has died, his family and the police have confirmed to local media. The p... Read more

Fatima Bio, the wife of Sierra Leone’s president, Julius Maada Bio, has said her husband holds a PhD degree in staging coups therefore nobody can overthrow him. She was referring to the viol... Read more

The Kenyan president, William Ruto, has told the BBC he’s open to buying fuel from Russia. Several countries have refused to engage with Moscow since the invasion of Ukraine but Mr Rut... Read more

Anti-government demonstrations have taken place in several suburbs of the Tunisian capital, Tunis. Marchers criticised the administration of President Kais Saied for failing to tackle inflat... Read more

A Magistrates’ Court in the northern Nigerian city of Kano has remanded in custody a Chinese businessman who is accused of killing his Nigerian girlfriend. The suspect, Geng Quanrong, allege... Read more

The Gabonese opposition leader, Guy Nzouba-Ndama, has been placed under house arrest five days after he was detained at the Congolese border with suitcases packed with about $2 million (£1.8... Read more

Tanzania has scrapped unpopular banking and mobile money transaction fees imposed last year amid public outcry. Finance Minister Mwigulu Nchemba told lawmakers the charges were abolished fol... Read more

The death penalty has been abolished in Equatorial Guinea, according to a new criminal code signed by President Teodoro Obiang, state media has reported. The last execution in the country to... Read more

Mozambican police have detained 29 youths allegedly travelling to join the militants operating in the gas-rich northern Cabo Delgado province The mostly young people from the districts of Me... Read more

The team of Kenya’s President-elect has barred local media from covering the presidential inauguration, offering exclusive broadcast rights to Multichoice Kenya Ltd, an affiliate of So... Read more

Speculation continues in Burundi about who President Évariste Ndayishimiye was referring to after he warned that “powerful people” in his government were planning a coup. In rema... Read more

A Moroccan parliamentary group has proposed a bill that would see women granted paid menstrual leave days. If made law, the country would be the second in Africa, after Zambia, to grant wome... Read more

At least 35 civilians have been killed by a bomb that hit a convoy of vehicles in the north of Burkina Faso where jihadist militant groups are active, the authorities say. Dozens of others w... Read more