President Bola Tinubu has given a fresh appointment to Kaduna State Governor Uba Sani amid Nasir El-Rufai's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) saga.
Somali citizens raised funds to build a private home for former president Farmaajo in Marka, citing appreciation for his leadership and public service.
The head of Kenya's election commission on Friday admitted the tallying of results from the country's presidential poll was moving too slowly, blaming political parties for the delay, as national broadcasters abruptly stopped sharing provisional outcomes. But the broadcasters suddenly stopped their tallies on Thursday, with around a million votes left to go.
A decade after her 30-year-old brother was killed when South African police opened fire on miners striking for better wages, Nolufefe Noki is still no closer to obtaining justice. Television footage that day of police opening fire on protestors, raising a crest of dust at the foot of the hill, shocked South Africa and the world.
President Alassane Ouattara last week lifted the shadow of a jail sentence over his erstwhile bitter rival Laurent Gbagbo, but the measure may only go a short way towards lowering Ivory Coast's political temperature. Jean Alabro, a political commentator based in Ivory Coast's economic hub Abidjan, said Ouattara, 80, would have carefully "weighed" whether to pardon or amnesty Gbagbo.
The New Zealand Herald has called embattled All Blacks coach Ian Foster "a decent man who is out of his depth in a brutal business" as he prepares for a Test that could seal his fate. Senior New Zealand Herald sport writer Chris Rattue has labelled Foster "among the worst All Blacks coaches in history".
Mohamed gave up farming because of successive droughts that have hit his previously fertile but isolated village in Morocco and because he just couldn't bear it any longer. But it is not just his village that is suffering -- all of the North African country has been hit.
Several people were killed and dozens wounded on Thursday after police opened fire on anti-government demonstrators in several towns in the breakaway Somali region of Somaliland, opposition party members and witnesses said.
Calm returned to Sierra Leone Thursday a day after an economic protest spiralled into violence the authorities said killed four police officers, and a hospital source said claimed the lives of six protestors.
The Ethiopian government and Tigrayan rebels have had "direct engagements", the African Union said in a statement made public on Thursday, in the first official confirmation of such contacts between the two warring sides.
Burkina Faso has allowed ex-president Roch Marc Christian Kabore to leave the country for the first time since his ouster in January, granting him permission to fly to the Middle East on medical grounds, a government source and aides said Thursday.
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