Lawyers for former foreign minister Walter Mzembi and ex-energy minister Samuel Undenge said they were charged on Friday with “criminal abuse of office”.
The government of Equatorial Guinea has launched a manhunt for persons it suspects planned a foiled coup to overthrow the country’s leader, Theodoro Obiang last year.
The President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa on Friday met the leading opposition leader in that country Morgan Tsvangirai of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).
Thirty-seven people died overnight when torrential rain and mudslides swept though shanty homes in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the authorities said on Thursday.
One more girl abducted by the militant group, Boko Haram has been rescued by the Nigerian military. The girl, Salomi Pagu according to the military leadership in a statement was found with another girl who was not part of the Chibok school girls kidnapped in 2014.
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has not yet declared his intention to seek re-election or not but his supporters are pushing for him to be re-elected as the country’s leader.
