Police in Zimbabwe are investigating the country's biggest mobile phone operator, Econet Wireless, for suspected money laundering via fake subscriber accounts.
A top Zimbabwean police officer and a chief public prosecutor have been arrested over bribery allegations in a $1m (£798,000) land sale scandal, a state-owned newspaper reports.
Police in Mali on Friday fired gunshots and tear gas to try to dislodge protesters demanding the resignation of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita from occupying the state broadcasting house and parliament, according to a Reuters witness.
Four policemen in Mozambique have been given jail terms of more than 20 years each for murdering an election observer ahead of last October's election.
Police in Lugazi Municipality, Buikwe District are investigating circumstances under which a 20-year-old man allegedly hacked his elderly father to death for denying him food.
Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta has apologised to the public after reports of police brutality as officers implemented a curfew to curb the spread of coronavirus.
