Media reports say Saadi Gaddafi has departed on a plane to Istanbul immediately after his release.

Special forces soldiers apparently ousted Guinea's long-serving President Alpha Conde on Sunday, telling the West African nation they had dissolved its government and constitution and closed its land and air borders.

At least two people were killed when part of a multi-storey building under construction in Kampala collapsed during a heavy rainstorm on Sunday, according to the Uganda Red Cross.

Twelve people were killed on an Egyptian highway early on Sunday when their bus overturned on their return from the popular Red Sea resort Sharm El-Sheikh, medical and security sources said.

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Turmoil engulfed the impoverished west African nation of Guinea again on Sunday as army putschists said they had captured the president and staged a coup, and the government insisted it has repelled the attack.

Gunfire was heard in the centre of the Guinean capital Conkary on Sunday morning and troops were seen on the streets, witnesses told AFP.

Nigeria's telecoms regulator has for security reasons, asked operators to shut down mobile phone lines in Zamfara State, days after other restrictions were announced in the region plagued by violence.

Tanzanian police arrested several members of the country's main opposition Chadema party, the latest crackdown on a group pushing for constitutional reform in the East African nation.

Tanzanian police are investigating allegations that some of their own officers raped and sexually harassed several women in night clubs.

Nelly Mutti, a lawyer based in Lusaka, was elected unopposed to replace Patrick Matibini.

Twelve people have died and thousands have fallen ill after a river in southern DR Congo was polluted by toxic waste from a diamond mine, the government said.

The Kenyan government said on Friday it will go to the country's top court to challenge a ruling that halted President Uhuru Kenyatta's bid to change the constitution, a source of growing controversy ahead of next year's polls.

Five girls who were among 73 children kidnapped from a school in northwestern Nigeria have been rescued, police in Zamfara State said on Thursday, although other sources gave different details in the aftermath of the mas

Six people died after sneaking into a goldmine in Burkina Faso, police said, leading to angry scenes in which the mine was vandalised and vehicles were torched.

Six Kenyan police officers have been charged with murder over the deaths in custody of two brothers arrested for allegedly breaking a Covid curfew.

Most African countries are set to miss the "crucial" goal of vaccinating the most vulnerable ten percent of their populations against Covid-19 by the end of the month, the World Health Organisation warned.

The United States will begin shipping more than 2 million doses of Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine to Kenya and Ghana on Wednesday through the Covax global distribution program, a White House official said.

A popular Rwandan rapper known as Jay Polly died in custody early on Thursday, officials and media reports said, the second detained musician to die in mysterious circumstances in less than two years.

A large group of children were feared to have been kidnapped from a school in the north western Nigerian state of Zamfara.