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Uganda’s opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi Sentamu alias Bobi Wine has told Africanews that the human rights situation in Uganda has worsened since the January 14 election. Veteran ruler Yoweri Museveni was declared the winner of the controversial vote and was sworn in for another term in May. The election campaigns were dominated by episodes of deadly violence against Museveni’s opponents ...

Heads of State of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have suspended the Republic of Mali from the regional body, ordering the military leaders who are currently in charge of the nation to restore the transitional arrangement put in place in August 2020 with the aim of returning the troubled West African state to democratic rule by 27th ...

Nigerian officials say gunmen have kidnapped many students from an Islamic school in Nigeria – the latest in a series of such attacks on schools. Authorities in Niger state confirmed to the BBC that gunmen had seized an unknown number of students from the school in the town of Tegina on Sunday. A teacher told the BBC that 150 students ...

The UN mission in Mali has demanded an immediate release of President Bah Ndaw and PM Moctar Ouane, after reports that they were detained by soldiers. In a tweet (in French), the Minusma mission also called for calm in the impoverished West African nation. This comes after reports that interim President Ndaw and Mr Ouane were driven by soldiers to ...

The Nigerian Army says it is investigating reports that Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has either died or was seriously injured during a clash with a splinter group, the Islamic State in West African Province (Iswap). It’s not the first time Shekau has been reported killed. But the militant leader resurfaced each time. Army spokesman Brig Gen Mohammed Yerima told ...

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has said that he will not allow the delayed general election to be used “to fulfil the interest of external forces”, state-owned Ethiopian News Agency (ENA) reported. “The election will be decided by Ethiopia and Ethiopians only, not to fulfil the interest of external forces,” ENA quoted Abiy as saying while inaugurating an industrial park ...

Zimbabwe’s high court has ruled that the president’s extension of the chief justice’s term of office by five years is illegal. A group of lawyers had challenged the move which followed a recent constitutional amendment passed by parliament that raised the retirement age of senior judges from 70 to 75. The judges ruled that Luke Malaba, who turned 70 on ...

An emaciated 12-year-old girl who was kept locked in a cage for eight months by her guardians in Nigeria has been rescued by police. Two people at the property in a suburb of the north-western city of Sokoto had been arrested during the operation on Thursday, police spokesperson Sanusi Abubakar, an assistant superintendent, said. They had reportedly caged the girl ...

Kenya MP Moses Kuria has told the BBC he received a $1,000 (£700) bribe in parliament last year to back the appointment of the majority leader. “It is not unusual for members to get this kind of an inducement,” he said, adding he would return the payment. Mr Kuria made the remarks as he and two other colleagues are to ...

Nigeria’s new anti-corruption chief on Tuesday announced that $153m (£108m) had been recovered from the country’s former oil minister Diezani Alison Madueke who fled to the UK in 2015, the Vanguard news site reports. Abdulrasheed Bawa said at least 80 properties valued at $80m had also been seized. “We are looking forward to the time we will, maybe, have her ...