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Rapists in self-declared republic of Somaliland can no longer marry their victims after the country’s parliament passed a law against rape.

The government of Tanzania has carried out its threat of preventing pregnant schoolgirls from attending public schools by arresting five pregnant teenagers and their parents.

Almost two months after exiting power, Robert Mugabe’s family members are complaining of “ill-treatment” under the current government led by President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

Protests over increasing levels of prices for bread in Sudan have turned violent resulting in the death of a student on Sunday.

A man arrested in Zimbabwe last month for insulting and undermining the country’s president, Emmerson Mnangagwa is to stand trial after he was declared mentally fit to do so.

A ministerial fact-finding mission was headed to Casamance in southern Senegal on Sunday after 13 youths were killed in the first upsurge in violence in the isolated region in years.

Two of Robert Mugabe’s sons are facing imminent arrests for alleged corrupt deals while their father was in power. Local media reported that Robert Mugabe Jnr, and Bellarmine Chatunga are being investigated for illegal gold trading.

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 President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa on Friday met the leading opposition leader in that country Morgan Tsvangirai of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).

Officials in Egypt have confirmed the death of a tourist with 12 others sustaining injuries after a hot air balloon crashed near the city of Luxor.