South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is among world leaders believed to have targeted for phone tapping using spyware. Known as Pegasus, it infects phones and allows operators to spy on t... Read more
The lawyer of a Nigerian separatist leader has confirmed reports that his client, Sunday Igboho, has been detained by the authorities in neighbouring Benin as he prepared to board a flight t... Read more
The South African authorities are still assessing the true economic cost of the looting and violence that broke out after the jailing of former president Jacob Zuma. The estimated... Read more
Tunisia’s Health Minister Faouzi Mehdi has been sacked as the country struggles to cope with surging numbers of coronavirus cases. The disease has put the medical system under severe p... Read more
The authorities in north-west Nigeria say they have freed 100 women and children – mainly mothers nursing infants – who were seized by bandits. The group were abducted on 8 June... Read more
Bandits in Nigeria have shot down an air force plane in a rare case of a military jet being brought down by a criminal gang in the country. The pilot had finished a raid against kidnappers w... Read more
The authorities in Nigeria say 13 policemen were killed in an ambush by suspected armed gangs in the north-western state of Zamfara on Sunday. Seven others were also wounded after they respo... Read more
Prominent Egyptian journalist Abdenasser Salama has been detained on terrorism charges after calling for President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to resign, local media report. Mr Salama, a former edi... Read more
Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera says it is “unfair” to criticise him for appointing his daughter as a diplomat. “I have made over 2,000 appointments in the civil service,... Read more
South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma has appeared on a video link from prison to attend a corruption trial. Mr Zuma faces charges of fraud and racketeering dating back to the 1990s. Th... Read more
Tanzania’s opposition leader Freeman Mbowe has said the Chadema party will continue holding meetings calling for constitutional change despite police arresting its members. Chadema sai... Read more
Zimbabwe’s ruling party has denied reports it intends to ban women and girls from wearing miniskirts and trousers in public places. Zanu-PF national spokesman Simon Khaya Moyo in... Read more
South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma has appeared on a video link from prison to attend a corruption trial. Mr Zuma faces charges of fraud and racketeering dating back to the 1990s. Th... Read more
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa, has described the violent unrest that swept the country over the past week as an assault on democracy. He was speaking on a visit to the worst... Read more
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