Burkina Faso's junta leader Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba agreed to step down Sunday, two days after military officers announced he had been removed from power, religious and community leaders said.

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Chad has extended the transition period to democratic elections, while keeping the head of the military junta on as head of state in the interim.

Equatorial Guinea has reopened a bitter battle with France at the UN's top court over a confiscated Paris mansion and other assets, the International Court of Justice said.

Lawmakers in Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland have extended President Muse Bihi Abdi's current term of office by two years ahead of its expiry in November, the senate chairman said on Saturday.

Namibia's water, energy, and food security are under threat because its main rivers have run dry amid a drought, and its upstream neighbours are diverting supplies.

The African Union on Saturday condemned the "unconstitutional change of government" in Burkina Faso, a day after the second coup this year in the deeply poor and restive West African country.

Burkina Faso awoke to fresh uncertainty Saturday after its second coup this year when junior officers toppled a junta leader, saying he had failed to fight jihadist attacks in the deeply poor and restive West African nation.

The death toll from an Ebola outbreak in Uganda has risen to seven, the health ministry said Friday, after President Yoweri Museveni ruled out a lockdown to contain the highly contagious virus.

Zimbabwe wants gold, diamond and platinum miners to pay half of their royalties to the government in the commodities themselves and the rest in cash, as the southern African country seeks to build its mineral reserves.

Heavy gunfire rang out from the main military camp and some residential areas of Burkina Faso's capital on Friday and a large blast was heard near the presidential palace, Reuters reporters said.

Botswana celebrates 56 years of independence on Friday. Despite one party dominating the political landscape since independence, Botswana has been a model democracy in southern Africa.

A Zimbabwe court Thursday found award-winning novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga guilty of "inciting violence" after she held up a sign calling for reform at a small protest during the coronavirus pandemic.

The recently released International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia report shows that both Tigrayan and Ethiopian Defence Forces fighting against each other were responsible for gross human rights violations.

Rhino poaching in Namibia is picking up, and officials suspect international syndicates are shifting their focus from South Africa.

The US blames Eritrea for playing a central role in the resumption of conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region and called for Eritreans to "withdraw to their borders immediately".

The East African Court of Justice will hand down a ruling in a case where the Tanzanian government is being sued by the Maasai people over it's plan to relocate them from their ancestral land in order to create a wildlife corridor for trophy hunting ...

At least 22 people were killed when two Ugandan military helicopters crashed in east Democratic Republic of Congo, a Congo army spokesman who asked not to be named told Reuters on Wednesday.