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Officials in The Gambia on Thursday announced that a Truth and Reconciliation Commission will soon be set up following the exit of former longtime leader Yahya Jammeh.

Ten people are reported to have been killed on Wednesday at Merti along the Samburu-Baringo border in Kenya Rift Valley following a cattle raid.

The President of Tanzania John Magufuli on Thursday sacked his information minister.

A boy of 10 was forced to lie face down while his mother was subjected to a four-hour rape ordeal in a Johannesburg taxi, reports from South Africa say.

The man believed to have carried out the attack in Westminster has been named by police as Khalid Masood.

Rwandan prosecutors charged a dual Rwandan-British citizen of treason on Thursday, accusing her of forming an armed group and conspiring to unseat the president.

A French military source has told Reuters that a French national has been kidnapped on Thursday in eastern Chad.

Ten members of Egypt's security forces were killed when their vehicles were hit by two improvised bombs during a military operation against suspected militants in the Sinai peninsula, the army said on Thursday.

A religious TV channel in Senegal has blamed an unidentified saboteur for the "satanic trick" that led to a hardcore porn film being shown on air.

Armed groups and even United Nations peacekeepers have occupied schools or set up bases nearby in the Central African Republic, preventing countless pupils across the conflict-torn from receiving an education, a rights group said on Thursday.