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Gabon’s junta named General Brice Oligui Nguema as transition leader, soldiers said on national television on Wednesday. The announcement came hours after President Ali Bongo appeared in a video and called on his "friends" to "make noise" after military officers in the Central African state staged a coup attempt. Read…

Former detainees now in Tunisia say death of woman in Libya camp is not unexpected considering conditions there.

Zimbabwe’s main opposition party has demanded fresh elections supervised by neighboring countries

At least 183 people have died in violent clashes in Ethiopia's Amhara region since July, according to the United Nations.

The United Nations human rights office says at least 183 people have been killed in clashes in Ethiopia’s Amhara region since July as Amhara fighters resist efforts by the federal government to disband them

At least 183 people have been killed since July in clashes in Ethiopia's Amhara region, the United Nations said Tuesday as it appealed for the killings, violence and rights abuses to end.

Reported cases are almost all by RSF paramilitaries and are just the tip of the iceberg, say campaign groups

Footage provides latest shocking glimpse of conditions endured by refugees in north African country

The United Nations is in the throes of what Secretary-General António Guterres calls an “unprecedented” six-month exit from Mali on orders of the West African nation’s military junta, which has brought in mercenaries from Russia’s Wagner Group to help fight an Islamic insurgency

Advocates say that prisoners are protesting against dire conditions – and that the government’s reforms are not enough.

Niger’s President Mohamed Bazoum was detained and deposed on 26 July by his military guard under the command of General Abdourahamane Tchiani.