Africa

Sudan’s coup leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has appointed himself as the leader of new ruling council and excluded civilian members of the previous council. Gen Burhan retained his deputy Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, alias Hemeti, as well as other senior military leaders to the positions they held before the 25 October …

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will make his first official trip to Africa next week, visiting Kenya, Nigeria and Senegal. Mr Blinken would meet the presidents of all three countries, and deliver a speech on US-Africa policy, the State Department said. On the first leg of his visit to …

Parliament in Ghana has opened its doors to the public in order to express its opinions in an anti-gay bill, widely supported in the country. The bill proposes a five-year jail term for lesbian, bi-sexual and transgender (LGBT+) people and a 10-year term for promoters and advocates of LGBT+ activities, …

Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi has appointed Arsenia Felicidade Felix Massingue as the country’s first female interior minister and Cristóvão Artur Chume as national defence minister. The previous ministers in charge of defence and interior security were both sacked this week. Mr Chume is a major-general noted for commanding the forces …

Police in Nigeria said they were investigating an incident that took place in Alkali village in Yobe state where two cousins, all 25, amputated each other the hand. Police spokesman in Yobe State, Dungus Abdulkari said the two young men engaged in a fight in which they used machetes to …

Sierra Leonean President Julius Maada Bio has declared three days of national mourning after a fuel tanker explosion on Friday killed more than 100 people. Mr Maada Bio said the country must learn from the incident, adding that those injured would be given free treatment. A task force is set …

A parliamentarian in Cape Verde has been found guilty of violently assaulting his wife and given a three-year suspended sentence after being news site RFI reports. Damião Medina had initially been sentenced to two years in prison but this was reversed, a decision that has been criticised in the country. …

Nine anti-government groups in Ethiopia have signed an alliance against Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s administration. The rebel groups include the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) and Oromo Liberation Army (OLA). The government in Addis Ababa has said it’s on the brink of victory and will continue to fight what it …

Algeria has written to the United Nations, the African Union and the Arab League to inform of them of Monday’s killing of its nationals in a drone attack in Western Sahara. “Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra has informed the international organisations about the seriousness of state terrorism which cannot be justified …

Overstone Kondowe, member of the Malawi Congress Party, has been sworn in as Malawi’s first Member of Parliament with albinism. People with the condition in Malawi have often been subjected to violence and discrimination and there have been 170 violent attacks against people with albinism in Malawi, including more than …