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

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

Gunmen have shot dead the mayor of a town in northern South Africa and wounded his son during a raid at their home on Thursday night, according to police. Moses Maluleke, 56, was the mayor o... Read more

The Malian army says it has repelled a terror attack on its main military base just outside the capital, Bamako. It says two cars packed with explosives were detonated at the Kati military b... Read more