Liberian President George Weah announced Monday that the West African country will launch a call in April for bids to resume offshore oil and gas exploration after years of stagnation.
Nearly 200 civilians were killed in violence last month in two volatile provinces in the Democratic Republic of Congo's lawless east, the highest toll since June 2017, a monitor said Monday.
Gambian police arrested 137 people and more than two dozen were injured as protests calling for President Adama Barrow to honour a pledge to step down after three years in office turned violent for the first time, the government said.
Kenya’s central bank monetary policy committee cut its benchmark lending rate to 8.25% on Monday from 8.50%, saying the economy was operating below potential and there was room for a more accommodative monetary policy.
The Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid) has launched an investigation after police allegedly shot and killed a Mfuleni resident for apparently throwing rocks at a police van.
The United States said Thursday it would no longer issue temporary visitor visas to pregnant women seeking to enter the country for so-called "birth tourism."
Isabel dos Santos, the tycoon daughter of Angola's ex-president who is at the centre of an anti-graft investigation, on Thursday vowed she was ready to fight against what she called "misleading and untrue" allegations.
Rebel forces in Libya have threatened to hit civilian planes flying over the capital Tripoli, declaring the city and its surrounding areas a "no-fly zone".
