The Ugandan politician and musician, Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, has told the BBC that documents needed to secure his nomination to run for president are missing from his offices following a raid by security forces on Wednesday afternoon

The governor of Nigeria's Rivers state has banned all forms of protests in the southern state, including protests against police brutality.

Namibian police and the Special Reserve Force fired rubber bullets, teargas and used batons to subdue the unprecedented and three-day nationwide protest staged on Saturday by around 400 mostly young women - who raised their voices against gender-based violence and femicide on the streets of the nation’s capital city, Windhoek.

South Africa's police has denied reports that it has issued an arrest warrant for the ruling party's secretary general over corruption allegations.

An Egyptian criminal court has sentenced six people to death for killing two policemen, the AFP news agency quotes a judicial source as saying.

Police in South Africa have arrested a 28-year-old man for impersonating a local mayor.