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At least 10 soldiers from the Cameroonian army’s elite Rapid Intervention Battalion were reportedly killed in an ambush on Thursday in Bamessing, in the troubled North-West region. A video posted on social media showed naked bodies of soldiers on the ground and two armoured vehicles that had been set on …

South Africa’s top court on Friday dismissed a bid by former president Jacob Zuma to overturn his 15-month jail sentence for contempt of court after he ignored instructions to participate in a corruption inquiry. Former president Zuma, recuperating in hospital after surgery for an undisclosed illness, asked the court in …

Casimir Oye Mba, the former Gabonese Prime Minister from 1990 to 1994 is no more. He died after contracting the coronavirus, his family announced. According to the Xinhua news agency, he was hospitalized for a week in Libreville, the country’s capital, but was then rushed to France as the situation …

Colonel Assimi Goïta and other army officers involved in overthrowing President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta in August 2020 and interim president, Bah Ndaw, in May 2021, will not face prosecution. They have been granted amnesty by the country’s interim parliament. The motion was passed by an overwhelming majority of Mali’s National …

The South African president Cyril Ramaphosa has called on the public to nominate the next justice chief as Mogoeng Mogoeng tenure ends next month. President Ramaphosa said this decision aims to “further deepen public confidence in the independence and integrity of the judiciary”. In a statement, the president’s cabinet said …

The leaders of the Economic Community of West African States( ECOWAS) have imposed heavy sanctions on coup leaders in Guinea. They impose travel bans and a freeze of the financial assets of the putschists and their families. Following an extraordinary summit in Accra, Ghana, on Wednesday, the leaders of ECOWAS …

The UN agency in Ethiopia said it is concerned as hundreds of trucks carrying aid to the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray are not returning. On its Twitter account, the UN agency in Ethiopia indicates that none of the 149 trucks in a convoy that went into the Tigrayan capital …

Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, the Egyptian president has been severely criticized on social media after announcing his intention to build the country’s largest prison complex. For critics of the president, he should build hospitals, schools and houses in the country which has a severe housing shortage and a water crisis. “I …

Health authorities in Guinea have announced that the Marburg outbreak which has been declared since the beginning of August is now over. Guinea is the first to detect a case of the Marburg virus in West Africa. It is about a highly infectious disease in the same family as the …

According to the United Nations, the human rights situation in Burundi has deteriorated since the takeover of current President Evariste Ndayishimiye last year. Reports by UN investigators say despite the easing of some restrictions, conditions had worsened for opposition parties, journalists and civil society groups. Reports also say some opposition …