Africa

The Alliance of Sahel States – made up of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso – said that the aircraft had been carrying 11 military personnel and did not have permission to fly over Burkina Faso.

Several people died in Benin during a thwarted coup attempt on the weekend, the West African country’s government announced on Monday after an emergency cabinet meeting.

Decades after thousands of Somali students found refuge and education in Khartoum while their own nation faced sociopolitical challenges, Somalia has opened its doors to Sudanese youth fleeing conflict.

Somalia’s Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, Mohamed Farah Noor, has announced that the Federal Government will soon relaunch Somali Airlines, marking the national carrier’s long-awaited return to the skies.

Around 100 schoolchildren kidnapped from a Catholic school in Nigeria last month were handed over to state officials on Monday, a day after authorities secured their release.

Tanzania’s prime minister urged people to stay at home on Tuesday, when activists have called for protests against the government’s response to the demonstrations around October elections.

Uganda’s national police service said on Monday that it would investigate reports that officers had beaten pop star-turned-politician Bobi Wine and his supporters at a campaign rally for next month’s election.

A UN committee has urged Britain and Mauritius not to ratify a deal seeking to settle the future of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean, saying it risks perpetuating long-standing violations of Chagossians’ rights.

Two high-ranking Benin army officers taken hostage during an attempted coup were released early on Monday, a day after the government said it thwarted the military takeover with support from Nigerian forces.

Felix Tshisekedi, the president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has said that Rwanda is “violating its commitments” to the Washington Accord, which both Kinshasa and Kigali signed in the United States last Thursday.