Joash Amupitan, the chairman of INEC, has been told to resign within 72 hours amid the political tension in the ADC ahead of the 2027 general elections.
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has launched its 2025 Young Graduate Immersion Program for graduates not more than 32-years-old.
Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi sealed 15 agreements with Algeria's president Monday, ahead of the expected conclusion of another deal to boost gas deliveries and reduce Italy's reliance on Russian supplies.
Devastating forest fires that broke out last week in forested areas of northern Morocco have been contained, authorities said Monday. One of the last fires, which destroyed some 500 hectares (1,200 acres) -- half of it forested -- was tamed on Monday in Tetouan province, local authorities said.
A Tunisian soldier was killed Monday on the country's southern border during a clash with smugglers trying to transfer vehicles from Libya to Algeria, the Tunisian defence ministry said.
Delegates from across Africa launched Monday in Rwanda the first continent-wide gathering about the role of protected areas in ensuring the future of our planet. The Kigali gathering runs until July 23 and has attracted more than 2,000 participants from across Africa and beyond, according to organisers. txw/amu/bp
Kenya is a democracy with free and fair elections, Deputy President William Ruto said Monday in an interview with AFP, confident that he will emerge victorious in the presidential poll on August 9. "We will have... to make sure Kenya remains a democracy and Kenya moves forward," he said.
Under the gaze of an enormous, old-fashioned manually-operated scoreboard, Zimbabwe came up with all the right numbers at the weekend as they qualified for the Twenty20 World Cup for the first time since 2016.
At Ouallam military base in western Niger, France's fabled Foreign Legion and local troops work side-by-side, and the tricolour that floats over the camp is the ochre, white and green flag of Niger. "Every morning, we stop and salute the Nigerien flag," said a Foreign Legion lieutenant who had arrived at Ouallam a week earlier with the force's 2nd Infantry Regiment.
Tigrayan rebels have set up a team to negotiate with the Ethiopian government, a spokesman for the Tigray People's Liberation Front told AFP on Monday, 20 months after war broke out in the northern region. "We will be ready to send a delegation to Nairobi... and have established a team with high-ranking members," TPLF spokesman Getachew Reda told AFP, without offering further details.
Thousands of Sudan's Hawsa people set up barricades and attacked government buildings in several cities Monday, witnesses said, after a week of deadly tribal clashes in the country's south. In the eastern city of Kassala, the government banned public gatherings after several thousand Hawsa people "set government buildings and shops on fire", according to eyewitness Hussein Saleh.
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