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Liberia’s former speaker and three other members of the House of Representatives have been released from prison after paying a combined bond of $440,000 (£325,000). Jonathan Fonati Koffa, Abu Kamara, Dixon Seboe and Jacob Debee were charged over their alleged role in the burning of the Capitol building last December. All four men face several […]

A UK soldier has been accused of raping a woman near a British army training camp in Kenya where another soldier was previously accused of murder. The alleged rape happened last month close to the British Army Training Unit Kenya (Batuk) near the town of Nanyuki, 200km (125 miles) north of the capital, Nairobi. The […]

Kenya’s police chief has suspended the head of a police station and all officers who were on duty at the time when a man who had been detained for “false publication” died in custody. Albert Ojwang was arrested for a post on X in the western town of Homa Bay and then driven 350km (220 […]

The World Bank says it is lifting a ban on loans to Uganda that it had put in place two years ago when the country passed a draconian new law against LGBTQ people. In 2023, Uganda voted in some of the world’s harshest anti-homosexual legislation meaning that anybody engaging in certain same-sex acts can be […]

Zambia’s former President Edgar Lungu has died at the age of 68, his party has said in a statement. He had “been receiving specialized treatment in South Africa” for an undisclosed illness, the Patriotic Front (PF) added. Lungu led Zambia for six years from 2015, losing the 2021 election to the current President Hakainde Hichilema […]

The central African nation of Chad says it is suspending all visas to US citizens as a matter of “reciprocity”, after learning that it is one of a dozen countries whose nationals are banned from travelling to the US. “Chad has neither planes to offer nor billions of dollars to give, but Chad has its […]

Warning: This article contains details that some readers may find distressing. A Kenyan activist has told the BBC that he is “struggling to be alive” after allegedly being sexually tortured in detention in Tanzania last month. Boniface Mwangi said he had decided to speak despite the “shame and guilt of being sodomised with all manner […]

Two people who the Ugandan army describe as “armed terrorists” have been killed in the capital, Kampala, as the country marks Martyrs Day – a Christian celebration to commemorate the faithful who died in the 19th Century. A counter-terrorism unit “intercepted and neutralized” the two, one of whom was a female suicide bomber, in the […]

Five members of a United Nations convoy carrying aid to the war-torn Sudanese city of el-Fasher have been killed in an attack, UN agencies have said. Several people were also injured and multiple trucks burnt in Monday night’s assault, which took place near el-Koma in the state of North Darfur, they added. The two sides […]

Nobody in South Africa seems to know where Tiger is. The 42-year-old from neighbouring Lesotho, whose real name is James Neo Tshoaeli, has evaded a police manhunt for the past four months. Detained after being accused of controlling the illegal operations at an abandoned gold mine near Stilfontein in South Africa, where 78 corpses were […]