The United Nations human rights office says Congolese security forces targeted UN monitors, preventing them from doing their jobs, while using excessive force against demonstrators who were protesting against the government.
Nigerian police on Tuesday briefly detained activists calling for the release of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram jihadists nearly four years ago, campaigners said.
A mother of nine, Maria Musa, is nursing serious injuries at a hospital after her husband, Musa Matiko, allegedly chopped off her hand because she overstayed at a funeral.
Ghana’s Central Bank has issued a caution to Ghanaians against trading in digital currencies such as Bit coin. It follows the recent upsurge in trading of the virtual currencies in the West African Country.
Manchester United have signed Alexis Sanchez from Arsenal, in a swap deal with midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan. Chile forward Sanchez, 29, who almost joined Manchester City last summer, has signed a four-and-a-half-year deal worth £14m a year after tax.
The President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari will not seek re-election without considering his state of health as pressure mounts on him to declare his stance on the issue.
The former football star, George Weah has been sworn in as the new president of Liberia taking over from the continent’s first democratically elected female president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
