Tunisian President Kais Saied had ordered a night-time curfew for the next month, a day after he suspended parliament. He’s also sacked more government ministers in the wake of the dis... Read more

Lawyers to Nigeria’s pro-Biafra leader Nnamdi Kanu say they have commenced legal action against Nigeria and Kenya at the African Union’s commission on human rights. They are demanding... Read more

Detained Tanzania opposition leader Freeman Mbowe has been charged with terrorism-related crimes, reports say. In a tweet his party, Chadema, also announced that its chairman was facing terr... Read more

The head of the UN mission to South Sudan (Unmiss) has said it is “deeply concerned” by the “spate of extra-judicial executions” in the country. Nicholas Haysom, the... Read more

Police in Zambia have warned political parties against flouting Covid-19 guidelines as campaigns intensify ahead of the 12 August general elections. The country’s electoral body had banned r... Read more

Tunisia’s main political parties have accused the president of staging a coup after he sacked the prime minister and suspended parliament. Kais Saied, who also dismissed the defence mi... Read more

Tunisia’s parliamentary speaker has been denied access into parliament after the president suspended the house. Rached Ghannouchi has staged a sit-in outside parliament’s gate as... Read more

The foreign minister of Equatorial Guinea Simeon Oyono Esono has told state television that the country’s embassy in London is closing in response to British sanctions imposed on the p... Read more

A high court judge in Nigeria has adjourned the terrorism and treason trial of the detained secessionist leader, Nnamdi Kanu, after he was not presented to the court. The prosecution did not... Read more

Twenty-eight of the more than 100 students abducted earlier this month from a secondary school in the northern Nigerian state of Kaduna have been freed. The pupils, from the Bethel... Read more

Tunisia’s president has sacked the prime minister and suspended parliament, after violent protests broke out across the country. Thousands of protesters, angry at the government’... Read more

A man accused of trying to stab Mali’s interim president, Assimi Goïta, last week has died in hospital while under guard, the government says. The assailant, who has not been identifie... Read more

Nigeria has received the first six military aircraft it bought from the United States, which are expected to boost its efforts in tackling violence by various armed groups. The A-29 Super Tu... Read more

Israel has been given observer status at the African Union, a statement from Israel’s foreign ministry says. “This is a day of celebration for Israeli-Africa relations,” Foreign Minist... Read more