Ethiopia says it plans to develop its own social media platforms after accusing global companies like Facebook of acting against the interests of the country. The director of the government’... Read more

The trial of the eldest son of ex-Mozambican president Armando Guebuza, Ndambi Guebuza, is expected to begin in the capital Maputo. The former president’s son is being tried alongside... Read more

Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan is being criticised online for her remarks on female footballers having “flat chests” and being unattractive for marriage. The president was speaking... Read more

Fifteen students have been reunited with their parents seven weeks after they were kidnapped from their school in north-western Nigeria, officials say. One parent said some of the children w... Read more

A second member of an anti-corruption organisation in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been arrested after it made accusations against the president’s wife. The organisation,... Read more

The United States has offered a $5m (£3.7m) reward for information leading to the arrest or conviction of former Guinea-Bissau military chief Antonio Indjai. Mr Indjai led a coup in the West... Read more

Eleven Malian soldiers have been killed during an ambush on a convoy in the central Mopti region, the military says. A statement said nine other soldiers were seriously injured when a car bo... Read more

The number of people who died in Wednesday’s jihadist attack on a military convoy escorting civilians in northern Burkina Faso has risen to 80, the authorities have said. Nearly 60 of... Read more

Police in Zimbabwe have arrested a 26-year-old man after a teenage girl died during childbirth, in a case that has sparked outrage among citizens and rights activists. Anna Machaya, 15, is r... Read more

Mauritius lawyer Pramila Patten has been appointed the officer-in-charge of UN Women, an agency which campaigns for gender equality. She will oversee the transition at the agency as it finds... Read more

Uganda’s foreign affairs minister says the government has not yet reached a formal agreement with the US to take in refugees who have fled Afghanistan in the aftermath of the Taliban... Read more

A Nigerian state governor has urged citizens to acquire weapons to defend themselves from armed criminal gangs carrying out kidnappings for ransom. Aminu Masari, the governor of the north-we... Read more

A Kenyan businesswoman has pleaded guilty to keeping money that was sent to her by accident, through the popular mobile money transfer platform. Elizabeth Karimi Muthoni received 271,200 Ken... Read more

Police in Algeria have arrested more people suspected of involvement in the lynching of a man falsely accused of starting forest fires last week. The new arrests mean that more than 60 peopl... Read more