Africa

Kenyan prosecutors on Thursday successfully blocked a controversial decision to grant bail to the suspected ringleader of a global ivory smuggling gang, arguing he may again try to flee the country.

Sierra Leone said Thursday it will confine around 2.5 million people to their homes across the capital and in the north in a three-day shutdown aimed at stemming the Ebola epidemic.

The election had to be brought forward by nearly two years after Thabane briefly fled to South Africa in August, when soldiers occupied police headquarters and encircled his palace.

A court in Kenya on Wednesday granted bail to the suspected ringleader of an ivory smuggling gang on medical grounds, prompting angry protests from conservationists.

A Zimbabwean woman wrongly accused of killing a young boy has been lynched by an angry mob in a shanty town near the South African capital, Pretoria.

Zimbabwe police on Tuesday fired teargas to disperse hundreds of students rallying in support of their unpaid lecturers, witnesses said.

Senegal's President Macky Sall vowed Tuesday to appeal personally to Democratic Republic of Congo leader Joseph Kabila for the release of Senegalese activists arrested in Kinshasa.

A week before Botswana hosts two key wildlife conservation conferences, a small group of lawmakers are seeking a review of a 2014 commercial hunting ban designed to reverse a decline in wildlife.

Mr. Rwasa accused the government of attempting to assassinate his wife. It has not commented on the allegation.

“Race is still a powerful trigger in South Africa,” he said, citing alleged racist commentary on social media. The African National Congress said last week that the Democratic Alliance protected “white privilege” and had sought to institute discriminatory policies reminiscent of apartheid. President Jacob Zuma recently said South Africa had defeated “the demon of institutionalized racism and apartheid.”

THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is to upgrade the facilities at its academy in Karu, near Abuja to be able to train anti-graft agencies for member nations of Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).. According to its chairman, Ibrahim Lamorde, doing this will help to fight corruption and related transnational crimes that…

Somalia's Shebab militants have killed one man and wounded three others in a shooting in the northern Kenyan town of Mandera, officials said Monday.