Colonel Assimi Goïta is being sworn in as Mali’s interim president on Monday. It’s a fortnight since he removed the transitional president and prime minister in a coup – the second he’... Read more

The leader of the Nigerian militant group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, has killed himself, rival Islamist militants said in an audio recording. In audio obtained by news agencies, the Islami... Read more

A Moroccan court has rejected an appeal for the release of a journalist who has been on hunger strike for 57 days, his lawyer has said. Mohamed Messaoudi says Soulaimane Raissouni is serious... Read more

The parliament in the Democratic Republic of Congo has voted to extend martial law in Ituri and North Kivu provinces that have been rocked by insecurity. The state of emergency imposed on 6... Read more

Senegalese serial jailbreaker Baye Modou Fall who escaped on Saturday from a prison in the capital Dakar has been rearrested. It was his 12th jailbreak from Senegalese prisons, local media r... Read more

Uganda’s national referral hospital, Mulago, says it has received an unprecedented number of Covid-19 patients as the country battles a second wave of the pandemic. The hospital’s depu... Read more

The International Criminal Court’s prosecutor has asked Sudan to hand over a key suspect accused of war crimes and genocide in Darfur. Fatou Bensouda made the call to the authorities to give... Read more

Police in Uganda have released street camera footage of two men believed to be behind Tuesday’s assassination attempt on the country’s transport minister. General Katumba Wamala’s vehi... Read more

Mali’s transitional president Colonel Assimi Goïta has named Choguel Kokalla Maïga as new prime minister. Mr Maïga is a leader of the 5 June-Rally of Patriotic Forces (M5-RFP) movement... Read more

Ugandan Minister Katumba Wamala has said “things could have been worse” while speaking about Monday’s assassination attempt. He said the officer escorting him shot back at... Read more

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has warned that his government would not tolerate any action promoting crime and insurrection in the country. In a major reaction to the rising wave of at... Read more

The leader of a Western Saharan separatist group has left a hospital in Spain and is flying back to Algeria, a spokesman for the group said. The move comes after a judge in Madrid turned dow... Read more

The head of an Islamic school in Nigeria where some students were abducted on Sunday has told the BBC that 136 students, including five of his own children, are missing. Three teachers are a... Read more

A judge in Madrid has turned down a request by prosecutors to detain an African separatist leader who’s been accused of torture and genocide connected with Spain’s former colony... Read more