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Cameroon’s 92-year-old president has won a controversial eighth term, in a fiercely disputed election. Paul Biya, who is the world’s oldest head of state, won 53.7% of the vote, compared to the 35.2% of opposition leader Issa Tchiroma Bakary, the Constitutional Council declared. Before the announcement, Tchiroma Bakary – a former Biya ally – insisted […]

To absolutely no-one’s surprise, Cameroon’s Constitutional Council has proclaimed the re-election of 92-year old President Paul Biya, the world’s oldest head of state, for an eighth successive term. Amid rumours of a close result and claims of victory by his main challenger, former government minister Issa Tchiroma Bakary, excitement and tension had been building in […]

A plane with 12 people on board has crashed in Kwale near Kenya’s coast, the aviation authority has said. It was flying from the coastal town of Diani to a resort in a game park, Kichwa Tembo, before it went down at 05:30 local time (02:30 GMT), a statement from the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority […]

Sudan’s military chief has confirmed the army’s withdrawal from its last western stronghold of el-Fasher after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) declared control of the city. In a televised address, Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan said he had approved the withdrawal in response to the “systematic destruction and killing of civilians”. He said he had […]

There is a place in Sudan where it is almost possible to forget that a devastating civil war is going on. Wrapped in bright colours and wearing plastic sandals, women in the country’s Jebel Marra mountains set off each morning on donkeys, children in tow, to tend the fields. In a Mediterranean-like climate and using […]

With no heavyweight opposition candidates cleared to compete in Wednesday’s election, many Tanzanians feel the vote is less like a contest and more like a coronation for President Samia Suluhu Hassan, as she faces her first presidential election. The 65-year-old became the East African nation’s first female head of state after the death in 2021 […]

Nigerian separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu has sacked the lawyers representing him at his trial and announced he will be representing himself from now on. The 58 year-old opened his defence on Thursday, where he argued that the court lacked the jurisdiction to try him – an argument rejected by the judge. Kanu, who heads the […]

Women’s marathon world record-holder Ruth Chepngetich has been banned for three years after the Kenyan admitted to anti-doping rule violations. Chepngetich was provisionally suspended in July following a positive test for Hydrochlorothiazide (HCTZ) – a banned diuretic used commonly as a masking agent – on 14 March. Chepngetich’s achievements which pre-date that sample – including […]

Ghana’s former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings has died at the age of 76. She was the widow of Ghana’s longest-serving leader, Jerry John Rawlings, who died five years ago. He led two coups before twice being elected president in multiparty polls. Social media is awash with tributes to the former first lady, politician and […]

A selection of the week’s best photos from across the African continent and beyond: