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An outspoken critic of Rwanda’s President, Paul Kagame has denied state charges of forgery and inciting insurrection leveled against her when she appeared in court on Wednesday.

Kenya’s parliament on Wednesday passed a new bill to amend the country's election laws ahead of the re-run presidential polls on October 26.

A Kenyan high court has ordered the country’s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission to include the Presidential candidate of a smaller political party in the October 26 repeat presidential poll.

Kenya's opposition leader, Raila Odinga on Tuesday announced his decision to withdraw from the October 26 presidential re-run election.

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".

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.

Militia fighters in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo attacked a U.N. peacekeeping base on Friday, triggering clashes that left two of the fighters dead and two peacekeepers slightly wounded, the U.N. mission said.

Hundreds of supporters of the Kenyan opposition political party, the National Super Alliance (Nasa) on Friday staged another demonstration in parts of the country as they demand changes to the country's electoral commission staff ahead of the October 26 re-run of presidential election.

Nigerians have been asked to avoid eating monkeys following the outbreak of the infectious monkeypox disease in the Bayelsa state.