Abdalla Hamdok, the deposed prime minister of Sudan, has been allowed to return home, according to his office, a day after the country’s military detained him after seizing power in a coup.... Read more
Cambridge University will on Wednesday become the first British institution to return a Benin Bronze to the Nigerian authorities. Jesus College will hand over a statue of a cockerel to a del... Read more
A high court in South Africa has dismissed an application by former president Jacob Zuma to have a lead prosecutor removed from this corruption and racketeering trial. In his application Mr... Read more
Sudan’s coup leader Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has said the military seized power on Monday to prevent “civil war”. He added that the deposed Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok... Read more
The authorities in Uganda say a suicide bomber was behind an explosion on a bus in the capital, Kampala, on Monday. “The attacker died in the explosion,” police spokesman Fred En... Read more
The southern African regional bloc, Sadc, has called for the “unconditional and immediate” lifting of all sanctions against the Zimbabwean government. “As Sadc, we are concerned by the conti... Read more
Defiant protesters remain on the streets of Sudan after the country’s armed forces launched a military coup. Chanting and waving flags, they have blocked roads in the capital Khartoum... Read more
Shabir Ahmadi started his job at TOLO TV, Afghanistan’s largest private broadcaster, during one of the darkest days for the media in the war-torn nation: January 21, 2016. The evening before... Read more
Thousands of refugees and migrants have been camped out in front of a United Nations centre in Tripoli for three weeks, calling for evacuation from Libya in the wake of sweeping raids that s... Read more
The Nigeria Railway Corporation temporarily suspended train services on a major route linking the capital, Abuja, to the north-western state of Kaduna after an armed gang attacked a passenge... Read more
The trial of the Nigerian separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu is expected to resume in Abuja on Thursday. Mr Kanu – the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (a pro-Biafra separatist gro... Read more
The European Union has called on Tunisian President Kais Saied to restore democratic order in the country and reopen parliament. EU foreign policy chief Joseph Borrell told EU lawmakers duri... Read more
Egypt has in a first appointed 98 women as judges in one of the country’s main judicial bodies – the State Council. The judges were sworn in before the council’s chief judge in an even... Read more
Liberia’s President George Weah has honoured an 18-year-old motorcycle taxi rider who found and returned $50,000 (£36,000) to a businesswoman who had lost the cash in the north-eastern Nimba... Read more
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