The two opposition parties in the self-declared republic of Somaliland have won the majority of seats in last week’s parliamentary elections. The Somaliland National Party (Waddani) wo... Read more
This month students in eSwatini demonstrated outside the country’s capital to demand action, alleging that a young man was killed by the police. Thabani Nkomonye’s body was found outside one... Read more
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
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