Africa

At least eight Nigerian soldiers were killed and 50 wounded on when Boko Haram terrorists attacked a military formation in Borno State, security sources told Reuters on Wednesday.

Guinea-Bissau’s transitional government has said in a decree published on Wednesday that the country will hold presidential and legislative elections on December 6.

Côte d’Ivoire’s President Alassane Ouattara has reappointed Robert Beugre Mambe as prime minister, following the resignation of the government in the wake of December’s legislative elections, a presidential decree said on Wednesday.

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has accepted an invitation from his US counterpart, Donald Trump, to join the Gaza Board of Peace, the country’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday.

The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) has welcomed the ratification of the new IGAD Treaty by Somalia’s House of the People.

President Yoweri Museveni Museveni has sought to frame his long tenure as necessitated by circumstances and not personal ambition although experts point to his strategic positioning.

The police said their revised position followed “subsequent verification from operational units and intelligence sources.”

The DRC has sent Washington a shortlist of state-owned assets – including manganese, copper-cobalt, gold and lithium projects – for US investors to consider as part of a minerals partnership, two senior Congolese officials said.

Severe flooding in Mozambique has triggered a rapidly escalating emergency that is already affecting more than half a million people, the United Nations warned on Tuesday.

The driver charged in the car crash that injured Anthony Joshua and killed his friends appeared in a Nigerian court on Tuesday as the star boxer’s uncle wondered whether a trial was “really worth it.”