The Namibian government has placed a ban on all cabinet ministers and their deputies traveling abroad as the country makes efforts to controls public spending.
The government of Kenya has accused the opposition leader, Raila Odinga of attempting to overthrow a legitimate regime following this inauguration last Tuesday as "people's president".
Zambian police are searching for two young women suspected of breaking the conservative country's tough anti-homosexuality laws after images of them in intimate poses surfaced on social media, officers said on Wednesday.
Three of Kenya's biggest television stations will remain off-air until further notice because they had planned to broadcast the opposition leader's unofficial "inauguration" in Nairobi.
Twenty-one people have died from Lassa fever in Nigeria this month, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control said on Wednesday, in the latest outbreak in Africa's most populous nation.
A Spanish village declared a day of mourning on Tuesday following the death of Francisco Nunez Olivera, a retired farmer billed as “the world’s oldest man”.
Former Kenyan vice president Kalonzo Musyoka said on Wednesday gunshots were fired at his home and a grenade detonated in what was "an assassination attempt."
Despite been sacked by his former boss and eventually taking over from him after a military takeover, President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa has said that former leader Robert Mugabe did no wrong while in office.
The Kenyan opposition leader, Raila Odinga on Tuesday declared himself "the people's president" after taking an oath before thousands of his supporters.
