Displaced Malians have been forced to flee after a fire tore through their makeshift camp in the capital, Bamako, destroying tents and reducing the land to ashes. Nobody was reported…
The Senate of the mountain kingdom of Lesotho amended the constitution on Tuesday, capping the prime minister’s powers to dissolve parliament and call fresh elections, as pressure for his resignation…
More than 300 cases of novel coronavirus have been detected at three Moroccan prisons after a campaign of testing of inmates and guards in the country’s 73 jails, the prisons…
EU countries will discuss a request for debt relief from five Sahel countries as part of efforts to help them cope with coronavirus, European Council chief Charles Michel said on…
A Malawi High Court on Tuesday extended indefinitely an order barring the government from imposing a 21-day coronavirus lockdown which was announced by President Peter Mutharika earlier this month. The…
An Ivory Coast court on Tuesday sentenced exiled former prime minister Guillaume Soro to 20 years in jail on charges of embezzlement and money laundering. Soro, a former rebel leader…
Tailor Morenike Alabi was convinced on Tuesday that a decision to ease a lockdown on Nigeria’s largest city Lagos was the right call – but other residents feared the move…
The spread of Covid-19 risks devastating countries across East Africa, where food insecurity could more than double in just three months, the United Nations warned Tuesday. The UN’s World Food…
Coronavirus has reached prisons in Guinea and Sierra Leone, government officials said Tuesday, raising the spectre of outbreaks in unsanitary and overcrowded jails. Bouna Yattassaye, the deputy director-general of Guinea’s…
