The Catholic Church in Nigeria’s southern Edo state says an Italian priest who was abducted last Sunday by gunmen has returned alive – but there are contrasting accounts about how he r... Read more
Uganda’s health ministry has proposed a new law aimed in part at preventing the illicit trade in human organs. The bill on organ donation, which has just gone before parliament, aims to prot... Read more
The authorities in Niger state in central Nigeria have ordered the immediate suspension of all mining activities. It comes days after gunmen launched a devastating attack on a mining site, k... Read more
Sudan’s military leader, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, has said the army will make way for a civilian government. In a televised speech, he said the armed forces would not stand in t... Read more
A haul of heroin hidden inside packs of baby food has been intercepted at Lagos’ main airport, according to police. Three suspects have been arrested in connection with smuggling 23kg... Read more
A letter signed by 34 British MPs and Lords has been delivered to the Egyptian embassy expressing their opposition to the imprisonment of a British national in Egypt. The group hopes that Al... Read more
The army in Uganda has denied reports that it is attempting to destabilise Ethiopia by training and providing support to the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), which has been at... Read more
Police in southern Nigeria say they’ve launched a manhunt for two Catholic priests who were kidnapped at the weekend in Edo state. The two men – Father Udo Peter and Father Phile... Read more
A lawyer for the Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga says a warrant for her arrest has been issued after she failed to appear in court over charges of inciting violence. The lawyer said his... Read more
The family of South Africa’s late leader Nelson Mandela has called for all community taverns to close and alcohol to be banned, following the deaths of 21 teenagers in one such ve... Read more
A huge manhunt is under way in Egypt for a leading judge accused of murdering his television presenter wife, whom he reported missing from a shopping mall near Cairo three weeks ago. A man,... Read more
A man has been arrested in eastern Uganda and held in police custody after slapping an MP at church on Sunday, local media reports. The 39-year-old struck Transport Minister Musa Ecweru in t... Read more
South Sudan’s Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Manawa Peter Gatkuoth Gual has died in a hospital in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, South Sudan’s government has announced. First... Read more
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has called the “horrific” killing of scores of ethnic minorities in attacks in the country’s west “unacceptable” saying... Read more
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