Isaac Kaledzi

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has pardoned and released a prominent human rights activists who had been jailed since last year on spying and other charges, his family said.

The UN said on Tuesday that soldiers "forced entry" into its base in the volatile Kasai region of DR Congo aiming to arrest a journalist critical of President Joseph Kabila.

Moroccan authorities have arrested a man suspected of supplying gas canisters to a jihadist cell that carried out a double attack in Catalonia earlier this month that killed 16 people, a source from the Spanish investigation said.

Gunmen abducted 11 people from a bus as they travelled close to Nigeria's southern oil hub Port Harcourt late on Monday, a passenger who escaped from the attack told AFP.

The ruling party in Zimbabwe, Zanu-PF on Wednesday organized a rally and a march in the capital, Harare in solidarity with the country’s first lady, Grace Mugabe.

South Africa will press the newly-elected Angolan government to pay 850 million rand ($66 million) it owes struggling South African Airways (SAA), the finance minister said on Tuesday.

The US city of Houston has declared a night-time curfew as it battles the impact of Hurricane Harvey. The storm has dumped record rainfall, leaving large parts of the city underwater, homes destroyed and over 20 people reported dead.

Officials in Ethiopia have shut down a major drug store in the east African country reported to be selling banned substances to athletes.

A female nurse has lost her job after being accused of accessing medical record of pop star Justin Bieber illegally when he was taken in for twisted testicle.

South Sudan’s parliament has passed its 2017/2018 budget but, after four years of war, acknowledged it does not know where much of the funding will come from.