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
Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi “Farmajo” has picked a new spy chief days after the prime minister appointed a different person for the job. The move further deepens... Read more
Detained Nigerian separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu has sued President Muhammadu Buhari for violating his fundamental human rights. In a suit filed at the High Court of Abia state, in south-east... Read more
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