Nigeria is investigating prominent participants in recent protests against police brutality for possible violations of a law against financing terrorism.
Dr. Bukola Saraki, former Senate President of Nigeria has described the death of former Ghana's President, Jerry John Rawlings as a great loss to the continent.
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara met with a main opposition rival on Wednesday and promised to pursue talks aimed at calming a standoff over the October 31 election, which has ignited clashes killing scores of people.
A suspected financier of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, Felicien Kabuga, made his first appearance at a UN court in The Hague on Wednesday after decades on the run.
Even before the anti-government protests were set to start in Angola, police had their guard up and were searching pedestrians and setting up roadblocks in the capital Luanda.
