Somalia’s parliament ousted Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire in a no-confidence vote on Saturday, as a simmering power struggle between him and the president came to the fore.
Deposed former Central African Republic President Francois Bozize announced on Saturday his candidacy for the December presidential vote despite being under U.N. sanctions and subject to an arrest warrant for alleged crimes against humanity.
Burundi's national assembly on Tuesday approved the nomination of Alain-Guillaume Bunyoni, a hardliner under US sanctions for his alleged role in political repression, as prime minister.
A Kenyan policeman has been charged with the murder of 13-year-old Yasin Moyo, who was shot as he stood on a balcony in March watching police enforce a night-time curfew.
The family of popular Lagos pastor Ituah Ighodalo of the Trinity House Church has been thrown into mourning following the death of his wife Ibidun Ighodalo.
South African opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) MP Mbuyiseni Ndlozi implored women in the country and the family of slain Tshegofatso Pule to confront the enemy that is femicide.
Ndlozi addressed mourners in Soweto at Pule's funeral. The 28-year-old who was 8 months pregnant was found hanging from a tree in Durban Deep, in Roodepoort. Her boyfriend was the last person to see her alive and police said he had been questioned, but not arrested.
Three soldiers have been charged with murder over a massacre in western Cameroon, where security forces are fighting anglophone separatists, the army said Thursday.
