Africa

Tunisian security and military forces caught five Islamists who escaped from a prison last week, where they were serving time for killing two secular politicians and policemen, Reuters reported. The interior ministry said four of the escapees were captured on a mountain near Tunis early on Tuesday, while another was …

Lawyers for ousted Nigerien president Mohamed Bazoum have asked an Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) court to reinstate him as president. According to the lawyers, “the detention and overthrow of Mr Bazoum violated his rights.” Bazoum has been held since soldiers seized power on July 26, accusing him …

At least nine people were killed in gun battles after armed men stormed into a jail in Guinea’s capital over the weekend and briefly freed former president Moussa Dadis Camara and other detained officials, the justice ministry said on Monday. Authorities found the bodies of three attackers, four soldiers and …

Suspected separatist rebels have killed at least 20 people during an overnight attack on a village, officials in south-western Cameroon said. Several others were left badly injured and homes were set ablaze in the area known as Manyu. Two Anglophone regions of Cameroon have suffered from relentless violence since 2017 …

More than 60 soldiers and prison officers have been fired in Guinea, following the escape of former junta leader Moussa Dadis Camara and two others. Capt Camara was recaptured and returned to prison a few hours after being freed from his cell by “heavily armed commandos” early on Saturday. Those …

Chadian authorities announced the recall of the charge d’affaires in Israel for consultation following “unprecedented deadly violence in the Gaza Strip”. In a statement from the country’s foreign affairs ministry, the government condemned “the loss of human lives of many innocent civilians” and called “for a ceasefire leading to a …

More than 20 people have been killed and several others injured after shells hit a market in a suburb of Sudan’s capital Khartoum, a group of lawyers said. The crowded market in Omdurman was hit after an intense exchange of fire between the Sudan army and the paramilitary Rapid Support …

A final year student of Petroleum Training Institute has been electrocuted while installing solar panels on a one-storey building at Warri Garage area, Nigeria. “The aluminium ladder used by the student in climbing up to the position he intended to install the solar panels was magnetised by the high-tension wires …

US and Kenyan authorities are searching for the killer of a Kenyan-American woman found dead at the Boston Logan International Airport in Massachusetts. Police said that they found the brutally wounded body of Margaret Mbitu, 31, in the passenger seat of a car parked at the airport. The primary suspect …

A 34-year-old man drowned on Elegushi beach during a religious gathering in Lagos State, Nigeria, according to reports. “The church had organised a picnic for its youths which the deceased was a part of,” reports said. “Concerns grew when the members were about to leave the beach but couldn’t locate …