Kenya and Djibouti will compete in a run-off vote on Thursday to become Africa's next representative on the Security Council after an inconclusive first round of voting.
Burundi's newly elected president Evariste Ndayishimiye will be sworn in on Thursday, after the sudden death of his predecessor who left him an isolated nation in political and economic turmoil.
A judge who was said to have died of a heart attack while overseeing a corruption trial involving the president's chief of staff in the Democratic Republic of Congo actually died of stab wounds to the head, the justice minister has revealed.
Senior African leaders in the United Nations have expressed commitment to act decisively to help end systemic racism against people of African descent and other minority groups.
The Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Mohammed Adamu has said that there has been an upsurge on sexual-based violence as a result of the lockdown imposed by the government to contain the spread of the ravaging Coronavirus pandemic.
