Human rights activists in Egypt have criticised the pardon given by President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi to a former police officer convicted of killing a Lebanese singer in Dubai in 2008.
The president of South Africa has warned that the country's coronavirus outbreak is going to get much worse, while announcing that lockdown measures are to be eased.
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has lamented the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on Africa's biggest economy following stringent measures imposed to contain coronavirus outbreak.
Dr Sekou Nkrumah, one of the sons of Kwame Nkrumah, has explained why there is bad blood between him and his siblings – Samia Yaba Christina Nkrumah and Gamal Gorkeh Nkrumah.
The Angolan Parliament unanimously approved on Friday, the Civil Protection Law that aims, among other measures, to prevent the occurrence of collective risks, resulting from serious accidents, disasters or public calamities.
Voting in Burundi’s presidential election passed calmly on Wednesday despite simmering political violence, the coronavirus pandemic and the opposition accusing the authorities of fraud.
