Tunisian authorities have arrested 12 people including a smuggler involved in organising a recent crossing that killed 15 migrants after their boat capsized, the coastguard…
Tunisian politician Ayachi Zammel, a candidate in the North African country's October 6 presidential election, has been sentenced to 12 years in jail, his lawyer…
Five more people in Rwanda have died of the deadly Ebola-like Marburg disease, bringing the number of fatalities to 11, the health ministry said late…
Four employees of Canadian mining company Barrick Gold arrested in Mali last week have been released, a judicial source said on September 30. Barrick Gold…
A former doctor went on trial in Paris on October 1 accused of genocide in Rwanda, the latest suspect to face justice in France three…
Gabon and Equatorial Guinea faced off September 30 at the International Court of Justice, hoping to resolve a decades-old scrap over the sovereignty of three…
Two days of attacks by Sudanese paramilitaries on the Darfur city of El-Fasher killed 48 people, a medical source told AFP on September 27, after…
Four employees of the Canadian mining company Barrick Gold, which co-owns one of the world's largest gold mining complexes with the Malian state, were arrested…
The body of a Guinean colonel who disappeared almost a year ago was on September 25 presented to his wife in the capital Conakry, one…
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered September 25 in the Congo capital Kinshasa to protest against the country's bid for a seat on the United Nations Human…
The UN rights chief sounded the alarm September 26 over intensifying fighting for control of the Sudanese city of El-Fasher, warning of likely ethnically-targeted violence…
Three Russians have been detained in Chad, Russia's foreign ministry said late September 23, confirming earlier reports. The ministry named the Russians detained as Maxim…
Nigeria's ruling party has won an election for governor in southern Edo state, the electoral commission said, in what President Bola Tinubu's office said showed…
Police arrested one of Tanzania's most high-profile opposition figures Tundu Lissu on September 23, his party said, as they moved to block a mass protest…
Ghanaian police said they had arrested 42 demonstrators in the capital, Accra, after clashes erupted during protests against economic hardship and the government's handling of…
A Chadian opposition party has claimed its leader was "abducted" by intelligence agents, saying he was the movement's latest figurehead to fall afoul of the…
Severe flooding in Chad since July has claimed 503 lives and affected around 1.7 million since July, the United Nations said September 21 in its…
Attacks said to have taken place between rival militia factions have killed 11 people in north-east Democratic Republic of Congo, sources told AFP September 18.…
A clash between the Ethiopian army and rebels in a restive northwestern region has killed at least nine people, mostly civilians, local official and hospital…
More than 40 people are presumed to have died after a boat overloaded with passengers sank on a river in northwestern Nigeria, authorities said on…
Guinea Bissau's President Umaro Sissoco Embalo said September 15 he could be prepared to run for a second term if his supporters willed it, appearing…
More than 60 people accused of offences including rape and arson during an attempted prison break in the Democratic Republic of Congo appeared before a…
Libya's eastern-based forces have enabled a crackdown on dissidents and a spike in arbitrary detentions that has resulted in at least two deaths in custody…
Hundreds of passengers were left stranded at Kenya's main airport on September 11 as staff went on strike over a planned takeover by an Indian…
The leader of one of Nigeria's top labour unions has been released from custody by a domestic security agency a day after he was detained…
