Ethiopia says it has seized another Tigray town as conflict embroils Eritrea

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government said on Monday it had captured another town in the northern Tigray region after nearly two weeks of fighting in a conflict already spilling into Eritrea and destabilizing the wider Horn of Africa.
France, the former colonial power, urged the soldiers to return to barracks
Mali president 'seized by mutinying soldiers'
Multiple reports suggest Malian President Ibrahim Boubakar Keïta has been arrested by mutinying soldiers.