A tribute ceremony for four UN peacekeepers killed during anti-UN protests in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is ongoing at a base in the city of Goma. The UN Under-Secretary-General fo... Read more
A Kenyan minister has said that the shortage of 100 ($0.84; £0.69) and 200-shilling notes at the banks is down to politicians using the cash to bribe voters ahead of next month’s elect... Read more
The running mate of leading Kenyan presidential candidate William Ruto has lost $1.7m (£1.4m) after a court ruled that the money held in four accounts at a local bank came from proceeds of c... Read more
Mozambique’s former Labour Minister Maria Helena Taipo has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for corruption charges, involving the diversion of more than $1.7m (£1.4m) from governme... Read more
A high court in the northern Nigerian city of Kano has sentenced a primary school owner and his friend to death by hanging for the kidnapping and subsequent killing of a five-year-old pupil.... Read more
Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema has revealed that his predecessor Edgar Lungu purchased a luxury presidential jet for $190 million. He said that the president shouldn’t have spent... Read more
Tunisia’s President Kais Saied has been celebrating his apparent victory in a referendum on a new constitution that gives him almost unlimited powers. Mr Saied appeared in front of jub... Read more
At least 10 people have died during protests against a UN peacekeeping force in Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo, police say. Seven of the dead were civilians while the others were U... Read more
Authorities in South Africa have started the formal process of extraditing the Gupta brothers from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), after serving a formal extradition request to prosecutors i... Read more
Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi has urged religious denominations to contribute to the fight against crime in the country through spreading a message of peace, tolerance and mutual forgive... Read more
At least 33 people have been killed and several others injured in central Kenya after a bus veered off a bridge and plunged into a river. The authorities say that 10 people survived the Sund... Read more
Tunisians are voting in a referendum on a controversial new constitution which would entrench significant new powers seized by the president, Kais Saied. He dismissed parliament a year ago a... Read more
The authorities in Nigeria say at least 30 people were burnt to death and a dozen others wounded in a road accident in the northern state of Kaduna. The accident involved three passenger bus... Read more
A Kenyan court has found three policemen and an informant guilty of the murder of human rights lawyer Willie Kimani and two other people in June 2016. The bodies of Mr Kimani, his client Jos... Read more
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