Uganda's High Court has directed security agencies to produce Education Ministry adviser Duncan Keith Ayebare, who has been missing since February, following allegations of unlawful detention.
Ghana's Parliament has passed a revised anti-LGBTQ bill that criminalises LGBTQ activities while exempting lawyers, journalists and medical professionals carrying out their duties.
Rumours of a planned June 30 mobilisation against foreign nationals have heightened tensions in South Africa, prompting fears of renewed xenophobic violence and forcing some migrants to seek refuge.
Escalating cooking gas and kerosene prices are forcing many Nigerian families to abandon modern cooking fuels in favour of charcoal and firewood as the country's cost-of-living crisis intensifies.
Kenyan police have arrested eight students following a deadly dormitory fire at Utumishi Girls Academy that killed 16 pupils and injured 79 others. Investigators are examining suspected arson and major safety breaches at the school.
Rwanda's President Paul Kagame has travelled to neighbouring Uganda to take part in the birthday celebrations of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni's son, Muhoozi Kainerugaba. This trip to Uganda, Mr Kagame's first in four years, is being seen as a sign of a cooling of tensions between the two countries.
