The son of a Guinean opposition video blogger as well as an opposition member have been kidnapped, AFP learned Thursday from their respective family and political circles, the latest in a string of disappearances connected to government critics.
Residents return to Sudan's Tuti Island, where fishing boats move along the Nile and damaged homes stand beside fields and old neighbourhoods after months of war and displacement
The joint anti-jihadist force of Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali carried out "intense air campaigns" in Malian territory following attacks by Al-Qaeda-linked jihadists and Tuareg separatists, the government of Niger said late Thursday.
The FIFA presidential vote in 2027 that is set to give Gianni Infantino a final four-year term in office will be hosted by Morocco — the football body’s second straight election meeting in Africa where he has built strong political ties.
A Ugandan-American man was sentenced to death on Thursday over the murder of four young children he stabbed to death at a kindergarten in Uganda's capital
A proposed Ugandan law has been fiercely criticised by rights groups, journalists and businesses for replicating the language of "foreign agents" used in a Russian law aimed at silencing dissent.
Human rights organisation Amnesty International on Thursday called on Nigerian authorities to investigate the reported deaths of 150 members of thje Fulani ethnic group in a camp run by the country's military.
Police said the vessel was believed to be carrying between 35 and 40 passengers. although it could not confirm the exact amount "due to lack of a passenger manifest".
Sadio Camara was killed during last weekend's coordinated attack by jihadist militants and their Tuareg separatist allies on military positions across the country, the largest in over a decade.
Hundreds gathered on Wednesday in N'Djamena to demand the release of Chadian opposition leader and former premier Succes Masra, who has been in custody for almost a year
Some 300,000 Malians have sought refuge in Mauritania's Hodh Chargui region since a security crisis began in 2012, fuelled by violence from jihadists, local criminal gangs and pro-independence groups
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