Politics

Security officials in Sudan have released El Musalmi El Kabbashi, an Al Jazeera TV network’s bureau chief who was arrested in a midnight raid two days ago. El Musalmi El Kabbashi was arrested in Khartoum and reasons for his arrest have not been made public. There were hundreds of arrests …

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 son of late Libyan president Muammar Gaddafi, Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi, appeared for nearly the first time in a decade on Sunday to register as a presidential candidate for a December vote planned to help end the years of chaos since his father was toppled. Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi, 49, appeared …

The US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, is travelling to Kenya for talks about the war in Ethiopia, as well as the security situation in Sudan and Somalia. President Uhuru Kenyatta recently visited Ethiopia and the US has warned it could impose sanctions on the Ethiopian government and the rebels …

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, who is expected in Africa next week, has said that he fears that Ethiopia could implode if the civil war continues. Discussing different ways forward, he told journalists in Washington DC that “out and out conflict… could lead to the implosion of Ethiopia and …

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 …

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 …

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 …