As fighting intensifies in Ethiopia, more foreigners are being told by their governments and employers to leave the country. Despite the continued clashes between federal forces and Tigrayan rebels, US and AU peacebrokers say they have made fragile progress in encouraging negotiations.
Meanwhile, Nigeria dismisses a report on the bloody crackdown on protesters at the notorious Lekki tollgate massacre last October. Judicial investigators contradict the army's denial that soldiers opened fire on crowds demonstrating against police brutality.
Finally, Senegal bookstores and publishers are riding high on the wave of Senegalese author Mbougar Sarr's win of the French Literary Goncourt Prize earlier this year.
