President Muhammadu Buhari has called on the Turkey-Africa Partnership Summit to provide concrete support to defeat terrorism and insurgency in Africa.

The UN says it is taking steps to address allegations of sexual misconduct by peacekeepers in the Central African Republic (CAR) in the wake of the repatriation of Gabonese troops three months ago.

The Biden administration hit dozens of Chinese entities with export restrictions on Thursday, accusing them of aiding in the oppression of China’s Uyghur minority or helping Beijing’s military, further ratcheting up tensions between the world’s top two economies.

Ousainou Darboe, the runner-up in Gambia’s election on Monday said his party had launched a legal challenge to President Adama Barrow’s victory.

South Africa’s High Court ordered former President Jacob Zuma to return to jail after setting aside the decision to release him on medical parole, a court judgement showed on Wednesday.

A young man detonated a homemade explosive device on the grounds of a Russian women’s convent on Monday in a town in the Moscow region.

Cameroonian farmer Saleh Abderamane was bleeding from a machete wound to his head when his relatives ferried him across the river border to Chad among thousands of refugees fleeing violence between farmers and herders.

ECOWAS leaders began deliberations on Sunday on crucial sub-regional and continental matters including reports on political crises in Mali and Guinea Conakry.