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

A Nigerian university teachers’ union has said it is preparing for indefinite industrial action, which would hit the country’s already troubled tertiary sector. If it goes ahead... Read more

The head of Tunisia’s Supreme Judicial Council says police have locked the doors of their office and have stopped the judges from entering the building – a day after President Ka... Read more

Kenya has launched the first locally designed and produced electric bus in Africa. Local engineering talent and local manufacturing partners were utilized in the whole process according to t... Read more

The police force in Tanzania has been placed under investigation over suspected involvement in the suspicious deaths of 22 people since the beginning of the year. President Samia Suluhu Hass... Read more

A Rwandan man has been hailed for his thoughtfulness for making a detailed preparation ahead of his own funeral. The 70-year-old Mr Leo has made available every resource needed; from his gra... Read more

Mali’s finance ministry says the country has defaulted on bond repayments because of restrictions imposed by its neighbours. The ministry said it had sufficient reserves to repay the d... Read more

At least 26 people have died after they were electrocuted by a falling power cable at a market in the Democratic Republic of Congo, police say. The high-voltage cable snapped and fell onto h... Read more

Brazilian police have arrested three men in connection with the brutal killing of a Congolese migrant in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro. The killing was captured on video and caused pu... Read more

The South African presidency has received the second of a three-part report on investigations into corruption during former President Jacob Zuma’s tenure. The second part was received... Read more

Liberia’s central bank has burned old and mutilated banknotes totalling 600m Liberian dollars ($4m; £3m) – to give way for freshly-printed notes. The disposal follows concerns that old curre... Read more