France evacuating its citizens from Niger ‘soon’
The French foreign ministry says it will soon start evacuating its nationals in Niger following a coup last week. It said that…
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Rescued Kenya cult followers to face murder charge
Forty-one people who were rescued from a doomsday cult in Kenya earlier this year are to be charged alongside the leader with…
Niger neighbours threaten response if coup quashed
Burkina Faso and Mali have issued a joint statement saying that they would regard any military intervention in Niger as a declaration…
I’ll not abandon 2024 presidency bid if sentenced, says Trump
Former US president Donald Trump said Friday he would not end his run for the White House if convicted and sentenced in…
Conflict: 70,000 Sudanese seek shelter in Ethiopia – UN
The number of people entering Ethiopia from Sudan is about 70,000, the International Organisation for Migration said. The IOM, the UN migration…
Mali PM denounces US sanctions imposed over Wagner
Malian Prime Minister Choguel Kokalla Maïga has denounced US sanctions on the defence minister, air force chief of staff and his deputy…
Thousands of children fleeing Sudan out of school – UN
More than 40,000 children who have fled fighting in Sudan to South Sudan since April are now unable to attend school, the…
Deadly Mediterranean wildfires kill more than 40
More than 40 people have died in Algeria, Italy and Greece as Mediterranean wildfires threaten villages and holiday resorts, and thousands have…
Ibori’s lawyer to pay £28m – UK court orders
A Court in the United Kingdom, UK, has ordered an ex-lawyer of James Ibori, the former Governor of Delta State, to pay…
Tunisians chant ‘down with coup’ at anti-Saïed protest
Two years since President Kaïs Saïed of Tunisia adopted sweeping powers, hundreds of his opponents have held demonstrations in the capital, Tunis.…
Algeria summons Swedish, Danish envoys over Quran protests
Algeria has summoned senior Danish and Swedish diplomats to condemn the continued attacks on copies of the Quran in the two countries.…
Rwanda senate VP apologises to Kagame for clan meeting
Rwanda’s senate vice-president has penned and posted on Twitter a lengthy apology to President Paul Kagame after she participated in a function…
Dead bodies in desert after Tunisia expels black Africans
The bodies of five sub-Saharan Africans have been discovered by Libyan authorities in a militarised buffer zone between the country’s border with…
Twenty-five soldiers killed by Somali bomb – army source
A Somali military source has told the BBC that 25 soldiers were killed when a man rigged himself with explosives and detonated…
‘We are struggling in Egypt, we don’t have any income’
A Sudanese refugee has told the BBC’s Newsday radio programme that he, and other Sudanese refugees in Egypt, are “struggling” and “don’t…
HRW accuses Mali army and others of widespread abuse
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused Mali’s armed forces and foreign fighters thought to be from Russia’s Wagner Group of widespread abuses,…