Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa has signed into law constitutional amendments that abolish direct presidential elections, postpone the next vote and extend his tenure.
Security forces recovered butane gas cylinders and pressure cookers, some filled with nails and others connected to an electrical wiring system.
A group called the Economic Justice Movement notified police of plans to hold a peaceful procession in Nairobi.
Guinea-Bissau will hold a referendum later this year on whether to approve a constitutional change giving the president more powers, according to a government decree published on Monday.
The United Nations Human Rights Council on Monday passed a motion condemning the escalating violence committed by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan's Al Obeid.
Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye is planning to set up his own political party, a coalition supporting him said.
The defence minister visited a town in central Somalia recently recaptured by from Al Shabab.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk described the situation in and around El Obeid as a “human rights catastrophe".
Authorities said it is continuing its search for two remaining suspects.
South Africa’s anti-migrant protests have sparked one of the largest regional evacuation efforts in recent years on the continent.
Nigeria has said that two of its nationals were killed in June in South Africa following anti-immigrant protests targeting African workers in the country.
Egyptian president calls for end to Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories
Al-Qaeda-linked JNIM terrorists and Tuareg-led separatists targeted multiple towns and prison, months after capturing Kidal and killing Mali's defence minister.
The committee for voluntary return organises 24 buses carrying Sudanese citizens back home, according to Sudan state media
The attacks were reported in the northern towns of Gao, Anefis and Aguelhok, plus the central town of Sevare and a prison at Kenieroba near the capital, Bamako.
Around 11,000 people, most of them Malawians and Zimbabweans, were near the border town of Musina for registration and verification.
The government says it has launched an inquiry into Jacob Zuma's meeting in India with one of the Gupta brothers.
AFRICOM describes the joint US-Nigerian operation as a model for future security cooperation in Africa.
The military says it disrupted illegal arms supply networks by intercepting weapons, explosives and ammunition intended for criminal groups.
Ghana says it has petitioned the African Union Commission over the attacks on African nationals in South Africa.
Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger have initiated a year-long process of withdrawing from the International Criminal Court (ICC), the court said in a statement.
Kenyan activists have launched a court case to try to block luxury lodges from being built in the Maasai Mara reserve, saying several existing lodges were built illegally.
The trial of two potential treatments for the Bundibugyo species of Ebola behind the deadly outbreak in DRC began in the country on Thursday, the WHO said on Thursday.
A passenger bus carrying 78 people overturned in southwest South Africa on Thursday, killing at least 16 people, including children, police and transport officials said.
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