Hundreds of people suspected of links to Boko Haram stood trial in a detention centre in central Nigeria on Monday in a resumption of the country’s biggest legal investigation of the militant Islamist insurgency, authorities said.
Leaders of the South African opposition political parties are pushing for the dissolution of the country's parliament and demanding fresh elections as pressure mounts on President Jacob Zuma to resign.
The new head of the UN's peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo took office on Sunday amid heightened tensions between the world body and the government.
The leader of the ruling African National Congress in South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that a final meeting on the future of the country's President Jacob Zuma will take place on Monday.
The 2017 Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership has been awarded to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former President of Liberia, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation announced today following a meeting of its independent Prize Committee.
