Madagascar's former president Didier Ratsiraka, a naval officer nicknamed the "Red Admiral" for his socialist policies, died on Sunday morning aged 84, current head of state Andry Rajoelina announced on Twitter.
France was "blind" to the genocide preparations in Rwanda in 1994 and bears "heavy and overwhelming responsibilities" in the tragedy, a report by French historians said but they found no evidence of French complicity.
Tanzania's late president John Magufuli was laid to rest Friday in his ancestral village in the country's northwest after his sudden death last week from an illness shrouded in mystery.
A slum in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown was destroyed in a fire late Wednesday, authorities said, adding that the toll was unclear but thousands may have been affected.
