Malawi’s electoral commission is seeking to suspend a landmark court order that annulled last year’s re-election of President Peter Mutharika, court papers showed on Friday. The southern African nation made…
Cameroon’s first parliamentary and municipal elections in seven years are due on February 9, despite jihadist attacks in the north and a bloody separatist struggle in the west. Maurice Kamto,…
Voters in Cameroon will cast their ballots on Sunday in a country where the mood has been darkened by separatist violence and calls for an election boycott. Elections to renew…
Gambian ex-autocrat Yahya Jammeh’s palatial country residence, where he allegedly administered a self-invented Aids cure, has been partially “gutted by bushfire”, the West African state’s army said on Thursday. Located…
Human Rights Watch on Thursday called on Tunisia to bring home nearly 200 children of suspected jihadists stranded or held in crowded camps and prisons in Libya, Iraq and Syria.…
Algeria’s president pardoned almost 6 300 prisoners on Thursday, but scores detained as part of an anti-government protest movement will not benefit from the move, a support group said. The…
Former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo on Thursday asked the International Criminal Court for his unconditional release following his acquittal last year over post-electoral violence that killed 3 000 people.…
At least 20 miners in Zimbabwe have been trapped underground after a shaft collapsed, state media reported on Thursday. The incident occurred overnight at the Globe and Phoenix gold mine…
Sudan’s cabinet said on Thursday that the country’s leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan had made no promise to Israel’s prime minister of “normalising ties” between the two countries. Burhan, who…
