Niger State NSCDC deaths: Tinubu orders probe as Minister Tunji-Ojo forms panel and suspends 20 officers over the deaths of 37 alleged illegal miners in Niger.
Nigerian lecturer Dr Ayodele Odularu was found dead at her South Africa home. Her family seeks answers as the University of Fort Hare honours her work.
Senegal coach Aliou Cisse told his younger players on Sunday that it was their time to shine after talisman Sadio Mane was ruled out of the World Cup. But Cisse is refusing to be downcast ahead of their World Cup opener on Monday against the Netherlands.
International calls mounted for rebels to lay down their arms in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where a lull was reported on the frontlines Saturday after several days of intense fighting. Over 120 armed groups are active across eastern Congo, many of them a legacy of regional wars that flared at the turn of the century.
A man wearing a Congolese military uniform was killed by Rwandan troops early Saturday after he crossed the volatile border and started firing at local forces, the Rwandan military said. The RDF said on Twitter that "an unidentified soldier believed to be from the FARDC (DR Congo armed forces)" crossed the border "and started shooting at Rwanda Defence Force guard towers".
Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo faces two opponents as he runs for a sixth term on Sunday, but critics see little hope for change in a country with next to no opposition. Members of the opposition, most of whom are in exile, hold no hope for a breakthrough on Sunday.
The United States, France, Britain and Belgium on Friday condemned "in the strongest terms" advances by the M23 rebel group in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, calling on them to pull back immediately and cease hostilities.
A shadow has fallen over the United Nations' peacekeeping mission in jihadist-embattled Mali, one of the UN's biggest operations, after a string of countries announced they would pull out. "In a peacekeeping mission, contributing countries supply troops for a certain period," it said.
Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, who is seeking a sixth term in elections on Sunday, is the world's longest-serving president, having spent 43 years in power.
Poised to win a sixth term in presidential elections on Sunday, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has ruled oil-rich Equatorial Guinea since August 1979, overseeing a regime notorious for crushing dissent and fearing coups. - Fear of coups - Obiang graduated from military school while the country, as Spanish Guinea, was still under the rule of Spain's fascist leader, General Francisco Franco.
Resurgent Italy host sliding South Africa in Genoa on Saturday as the nation in form and with coach Kieran Crowley insisting the Azzurri have a chance against the World Champions. Crowley, a 1987 World Cup winner with the All Blacks, can dream against the world champions.
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