Mali’s transitional president and prime minister were detained by soldiers hours after the announcement of a cabinet reshuffle that saw two senior army officers who took part in last year... Read more

US prosecutors have opened charges against Chadian diplomat Mahamoud Adam Bechir, his former deputy and his wife for allegedly taking a bribe from a Canadian oil company. The three had promi... Read more

The Nigerian authorities have declared 90 travellers who recently arrived Brazil, India and Turkey as “health hazards” after they failed to observe health protocols meant to prev... Read more

Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko has been barred from leaving the country to attend a conference scheduled for this week. He had been invited by economist Kako Nubukpo to take part... Read more

The United States is imposing wide-ranging restrictions on economic and security assistance to Ethiopia over the conflict in the Tigray region. The US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, als... Read more

A court in Egypt has denied a request made by the owner of the ship that blocked the Suez Canal in March to have it released. The Ever Given ship owner wanted his vessel to be released pendi... Read more

It’s probably true to say that the one thing the entire world has collectively been thinking about in the last year is Covid and the vaccines that will defeat the infection. Although some co... Read more

Mozambique’s army over the weekend foiled an attempted attack by Islamist militants in the northern town of Palma, according to President Filipe Nyusi. Palma is near a major gas projec... Read more

Nigeria’s army chief, Lt-Gen Ibrahim Attahiru, has been killed in a plane crash in the north-western state of Kaduna, officials say. The incident happened as the plane was trying to la... Read more

Angeline Mukandutiye, the only woman in a group of 21 Rwandans facing terrorism charges, has admitted to recruiting girls for a Rwandan opposition group that operated in neighbouring Democra... Read more

Patients who are critically ill with Covid-19 are more likely to die in Africa than in any other region in the world. A study published by The Lancet attributes this to the shortage of cruci... Read more

Mali’s largest trade union says a nationwide strike that began on Monday was successful because the country “came to a standstill” with key sectors of the economy paralysed... Read more

The head of the World Health Organization has described the situation in Ethiopia’s conflict-hit Tigray region as horrific. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who is from Tigray, said people were d... Read more

Spain is deploying the army in its North African enclave of Ceuta to stem a huge influx of migrants from Morocco. A record 5,000 arrived on Monday. Moroccan border guards did nothing to stop... Read more