Burkina Faso President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré has in a decree dismissed Prime Minister Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré and dissolved the government. “The functions of the prime mini... Read more

Seventeen African countries are taking part in a two-day Democracy summit hosted by US President Joe Biden, billed as an event to discuss ways to defend against the rise of authoritarianism.... Read more

Four lecturers at a leading university in Morocco have appeared in court over accusations of offering students better grades in exchange for sex. The academics have been charged with incitem... Read more

At least 38 people have died and scores more have been injured in a fire which tore through a prison in Burundi. Vice-President Prosper Bazombanza told reporters the blaze hit an overcrowded... Read more

The runner-up in The Gambia’s presidential election, Ousainou Darboe, has said he plans to challenge the result in which the incumbent, Adama Barrow, won with 53% of the vote. Mr Darbo... Read more

A Zimbabwe court has dropped charges of inciting violent anti-government protests levelled against journalist and government critic Hopewell Chin’ono. The court said prosecutors had failed t... Read more

A Kenyan police officer has shot dead his wife and five other people and then killed himself in Kabete town outside the capital Nairobi. Police constable Benson Imbasi is said to have asked... Read more

The UK’s travel restrictions have been criticised by Nigeria, after the country was placed on the red list amid fears over the Omicron variant. “What is expected is a global appr... Read more

The Gambia’s President Adama Barrow has easily won re-election, authorities there said, in the first vote for decades held without long-term leader Yahya Jammeh. President Barrow recei... Read more

Nigeria has become the latest country to be added to Britain’s travel red list – which imposes stringent coronavirus testing and quarantine restrictions on people who wish to ent... Read more

Nick Mwendwa has stepped aside as president of Football Kenya Federation (FKF) after being charged with multiple counts of fraud. In a letter to FKF’s national executive committee memb... Read more

A 63-year-old man has been lauded for his dedication to serving ice cream to the resident of Soweto Sipho Mtshali’s soft-serve ice cream van has been driving the streets of Soweto for... Read more

Nigeria’s Lagos state government has released a “white paper” on a report by a judicial panel set up to investigate police abuses and deadly violence at the Lekki toll gate last year. The wh... Read more

Malawi has announced that President Lazarus Chakwera has cancelled all public engagements “in order to attend to emerging national and regional matters”. The government stat... Read more