Some 114 out of 240 prisoners have been recaptured after their weekend escape from a prison in Nigeria. The authorities have urged the rest to turn themselves in or risk being prosecuted aft... Read more

A former health minister in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Dr Eteni Longondo, has been freed after spending 17 nights in Kinshasa’s main prison. The former minister was released on bail o... Read more

One of Britain’s biggest companies has responded after BBC Panorama found evidence suggesting it paid a bribe to the former Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe. The statement from Brit... Read more

The military junta in Conakry has announced the gradual reopening of borders with neighbouring countries in a statement read on national TV. Some of the borders have been closed since last w... Read more

More than 80 people have been killed by flooding in Sudan since the beginning of the rainy season in July, authorities say. The spokesman for Sudan’s National Council for Civil Defence on Mo... Read more

The Moroccan security forces say they’ve broken up a cell of militants linked to the Islamic State (IS) group. Three arrests were made in the southern city of Errachidia. The suspects... Read more

A Rwandan businessman has been shot dead in Matola municipality, a few kilometres outside the Mozambican capital, Maputo. Revocant Karemangingo was shot about 50m (164ft) from his residence... Read more

The TB Joshua church in Nigeria has announced a new era in its leadership as the late preacher’s widow takes over. Evelyn Joshua said her late husband will remain as the general overse... Read more

Guinea’s military junta is due to start holding four days of talks later on Tuesday in what it says is an effort to build a consensus on the future of the country. The west African reg... Read more

South Africa’s main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance (DA), has begun legal proceedings to try and get a court to set aside the decision to release former President Jacob Zuma o... Read more

A magistrate in Zimbabwe has said that the body of former President Robert Mugabe can be exhumed after a traditional leader said that his burial had violated cultural practices. Mugabe, who... Read more

Malawi’s High Court has found prominent businessman Thomson Mpinganjira guilty of attempting to bribe judges in an effort to get them to rule in favour of then-President Peter Mutharik... Read more

Guinea’s military junta has ordered banks to freeze all government-related accounts so as to “secure state assets”. The junta, which took over control last weekend, says th... Read more

Morocco’s Islamist Justice and Development Party (PJD) has suffered a crushing defeat in parliamentary elections, slumping from first to eighth place. The liberal National Rally of Ind... Read more