The military leader of Burkina Faso who took control in a coup three weeks ago has been sworn in as transitional president. Dressed in camouflage uniform and a red beret, Paul-Henri Damiba v... Read more
A Kenyan lawyer, Paul Gicheru, has gone on trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, accused of bribing and intimidating prosecution witnesses. Mr Gicheru said he was not... Read more
Tanzania is looking to set up its own vaccine manufacturing plant as part of its wider plan to tackle Covid and other diseases in the country. President Samia Suluhu Hassan said the country... Read more
Algeria’s president says the government will introduce unemployment benefits for young adults as the country struggles with high rates of joblessness. President Abdelmadjid Tebboune to... Read more
A 10-year-old boy has been rescued after spending eight hours in the crushing mechanism of a rubbish lorry in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum. The boy, identified by police as Majed Mubarak... Read more
The head of the Egyptian authority managing the Suez canal has said that work is under way to extend the two-way section of the waterway by 10km (six miles). The Suez Canal Authority Chairma... Read more
Ugandan police have arrested seven people for allegedly belonging to two terror cells, and having links to a raid in the central Lukaya and Butambala districts. Police Spokesman Fred Enanga... Read more
US troops have joined several hundred soldiers from 10 African countries for an annual military exercise in Ivory Coast. The two-week exercise, known as Flintlock, is designed to strengthen... Read more
The trial of a Kenyan lawyer accused of bribing prosecution witnesses of the International Criminal Court is due to begin in The Hague. Paul Gicheru faces charges of hindering the administra... Read more
The trial of a Zimbabwean journalist accused of helping two New York Times reporters to enter the country illegally is due to resume on Monday. Jeffery Moyo, a freelance reporter for the US... Read more
Guinea-Bissau’s president says the masterminds of last week’s coup attempt served time in US jails for drug trafficking. Umaro Sissoko Embaló said a former navy admiral and two of his... Read more
Religious police in Nigeria have destroyed nearly four million bottles of beer in a crackdown on alcohol. The bottles were crushed into the ground by bulldozers in the northern city of Kano... Read more
Dozens of Cameroonian asylum seekers deported from the US are abused on their return home, an international pressure group says. Some were arrested, tortured and raped, Human Rights Watch (H... Read more
Nearly half of those who escaped from a prison in Ethiopia in the early hours of Wednesday morning are still on the run. In total, 130 inmates broke out of the jail in the town of Nefas Mewc... Read more
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