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Gunfire was heard on Tuesday at an army base outside Mali’s capital Bamako. The Norwegian Embassy and security sources said a possible mutiny was under way. Opponents of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita have led mass protests since June calling on Keita to resign over what they say are his failures to restore security and address corruption. Following are details on ...

The opposition coalition in Mali is calling for dialogue to resolve a brewing crisis after gunfire was heard in an army base near the capital, Bamako. “There’s no alternative but dialogue now… [we] are searching for a democratic solution and we hope the situation could be resolved in a legal and ordered way,” Issa Kaou Djim, the spokesperson for the ...

Multiple reports suggest Malian President Ibrahim Boubakar Keïta has been arrested by mutinying soldiers. Their actions began with gunfire inside a key military base, some 15km (nine miles) from the capital, Bamako, on Tuesday morning. In the centre of Bamako, young men looted a government-owned building and set it on fire. The mutiny has been condemned by regional group Ecowas ...

Africa is balancing the adverse effects of others’ abuse of the environment with its industrial revolution. Even though climate change gets hijacked as a political talking point in the West, Africa is the most exposed region to the effects of climate change while contributing the least to global warming. There could be an opportunity, while leveraging China’s Belt and Road ...

A curfew has been imposed in Sudan’s main seaport, Port Sudan, following ethnic fighting which left more than 30 people dead.About 100 people were wounded, including members of the security forces.There have been several days of clashes between the Nuba and Beni Amer tribes, which have a long history of violence.The two groups signed a peace deal last September after ...

An Islamic court in the Nigerian city of Kano has sentenced an elderly man to death for raping a 12-year-old girl. In recent weeks, there has been increasing public outcry and street protests by activists against rape cases across Nigeria. A spokesperson for the judiciary in Kano state told the BBC that the Upper Sharia Court found the 61-year-old man ...

Officials in Somalia say 10 people have died during a shoot-out inside the capital Mogadishu’s main prison. A spokesman for the information ministry said six inmates who were members of the jihadist group al-Shabab were killed and four security personnel also died. There are reports that one of the prisoners managed to get a pistol off a prison warden and ...

The US has warned that Islamist militants are getting more aggressive in Mozambique’s northern province of Cabo Delgado with support from the Islamic State. The militants, known locally as al-Shabab – although it has no known links to the Somali jihadi group of the same name, have been attacking remote villages across the province over the past two years. Head ...

Social development experts in Osun State, Nigeria have declared that gender-based violence (GBV) is as deadly as the Coronavirus pandemic. The experts said this in Osogbo, the state capital, in their separate presentations at a post COVID-19 community development intervention training organized by the Osun Agency for Community and Social Development Project (Osun-CSDP). Participants at the training included community development desk officers from ministries, ...

Mothers should breastfeed their babies even if they have contracted COVID-19, the World Health Organization’s head said on Monday, as the benefits outweigh the risks of infection. “WHO recommends that mothers with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 should be encouraged the same as all other mothers to initiate or continue breastfeeding,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a news conference. As the world marks breastfeeding awareness ...