Category: Africa

Source: BBC Sudan’s military-led government has returned to the country’s capital after nearly three years of operating from its wartime base in the eastern city

Source: BBC  A plot to kill Burkina Faso’s military leader, Capt Ibrahim Traoré, has been thwarted, the West African nation has announced. The sophisticated plan

Source: BBC At least five people have been killed in a bomb explosion in a packed mosque in Nigeria’s north-eastern Borno state, a police spokesman

Source: BBC  A daughter of South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma has been sworn into parliament, less than a fortnight after her half-sister was forced

Source: BBC  Soldiers in the West African nation of Benin have announced on national TV that they have ousted President Patrice Talon and seized power.

Source: BBC  The daughter of former South African President Jacob Zuma has resigned as an MP following allegations that she tricked 17 men into fighting

Source: BBC  Guinea-Bissau’s deposed President Umaro Sissoco Embaló has arrived in neighbouring Senegal following his release by military forces that toppled his government this week,

Source: BBC  Fifty of the 315 children kidnapped by gunmen from a Catholic school in Nigeria’s Niger State on Friday have escaped.  The Christian Association

Source: BBC  The military commander who has ruled Guinea since a coup four years ago has entered the presidential race ahead of next month’s election,

Source: BBC Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan is being sworn in shortly for a second term following an election marred by violent protests and rejected