West Africa

Hundreds of Burkinabé were in the streets of Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, demanding the resignation of President Roch Kaboré, on Tuesday. “We are simply asking President Kaboré to leave,” said protest organizer Mohamed Komsongo. Protesters accuse the president of failing to subdue Islamists in the north and east …

Gunmen on motorcycles shot dead at least 15 civilians early on Monday and injured scores of others in Sokoto state, northwest Nigeria, local media reported. The state governor, Aminu Tambuwal, who confirmed the attacks in a statement, said 13 of the victims were killed in the town of Illela on …

The Nigerian businessman, Sani Dangote, brother and business deputy to Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, has died on Sunday, the Dangote Group has announced. The cause of his death has not been mentioned but local media report he died in the US after a long period of sickness. In a …

A student at the University of Ilorin has been arrested after being accused of beating a female teacher to a coma, police in Nigeria said. According to the police, the student had gone to see the supervisor over his final year project work when a disagreement ensued. He allegedly attacked …

The Islamic State (IS) has confirmed that it carried out an attack in Borno state in Nigeria where four soldiers including and an army general on Saturday. Islamists have waged a devastating insurgency in the country’s north-east for more than a decade. Read also: Ethiopia: Anthony Blinken fears the war …

The police in Nigeria say they have arrested 14 people who allegedly raided the residence of one of Nigeria’s Supreme Court judges, Justice Mary Odili. The arrest followed an investigation that found that the suspects included a journalist, an lslamic scholar and people pretending to be police officers, a police …

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, …

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. …