The Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has said that he has no problem with the decision of the country’s opposition leader, Raila Odinga to withdraw from the repeat presidential election.
A Belgian court on Monday ordered a halt to the deportation of around two-dozen Sudanese migrants following an uproar over Belgium's invitation to officials from Khartoum to identify them.
Liberians are voting on Tuesday to elect a new president who will replace current President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf who has served for 12 years after becoming Africa’s first democratically elected female president.
A coalition of rights groups on Monday asked Ghana's government of Ghana to "should ensure adequate funding for mental health services" in order to help eliminate "the widespread practice of shackling and other abuses against people with psychosocial disabilities".
Authorities say at least 10 people have been killed in the northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo by Ugandan rebels belonging to the group known as ADF.
Government officials in Ghana have announced that seven people have been killed in a gas explosion in the country's capital with some 132 others sustaining injuries.