West Africa bloc ECOWAS has decided to suspend Guinea following a military coup in the country, the organisation has said after an emergency summit.

Mozambique was urged to investigate fresh claims that women have been coerced into giving sex or money to receive food aid in regions hit by a four-year insurgency.

Guinea's military leaders have freed scores of political prisoners before a meeting of West African leaders to discuss their response to a coup that ousted President Alpha Conde.

Somalia's PM Mohamed Hussein Roble has accused the country's president of "obstructing" an investigation into the fate of an intelligence agent whose disappearance sparked an outcry.

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Ugandan police have questioned two prominent opposition lawmakers accused of orchestrating a wave of grisly murders by machete-wielding gangs.

The Dubai Gold & Commodities Exchange and Zimbabwe’s Victoria Falls Stock Exchange signed a memorandum of understanding that may lead to the establishment of a gold market in the African country.

Power grabs in West Africa over the past year - in Chad, Mali and most recently Guinea - are enjoying newfound impunity, leaving citizens angry and distressed.

Zimbabwe’s government ordered state employees who are unwilling to be vaccinated to resign to reduce the risk of them spreading the virus to others.

The group Human Rights Watch has accused Egypt of routinely killing opponents in "unlawful extrajudicial executions" made to look like shootouts.

The Governor of Zimbabwe's central bank has raised concern that companies are snapping up more foreign currency than they are allowed to through the bank's auction system, then sell at inflated prices.

Footage of war-hit northern Ethiopia published by the UN World Food Programme (WFP) on Monday reflected the severe humanitarian crisis there, after the United Nations warned that a de facto blockade on aid is bringing millions to

A Tanzanian judge on Monday recused himself from continuing to hear a case involving terrorism charges against the main opposition leader after the defendant expressed a lack of faith in his impartiality.

At least 30 people have been killed in a weekend attack in the restive northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo, local and UN sources have announced.

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.

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.