Africa

Military officers who staged a coup in Mali that forced the resignation of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita pledged to form a civilian transitional government to quickly organize fresh elections.

Mutineering soldiers in Mali detained President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, Prime Minister Boubou Cisse and dozens of other senior officials in what appeared to be a coup attempt after months of demonstrations calling for the government’s resignation.

Al-Shabaab militants’ deadly assault on a popular seaside hotel in Somalia’s capital has raised fresh questions about the threat posed by the terrorist group, despite a heightened U.S.-backed counterterrorism campaign in the Horn of Africa nation.

Angola’s Supreme Court sentenced four men, including the son of the former president and the former governor of the central bank, for embezzling $500 million from the country’s central bank in 2017.

Rescue teams are racing to pump an estimated 3,000 metric tons of oil from a Japanese bulk carrier stranded on a coral reef off Mauritius before the ship breaks up entirely.

Health workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo are facing a renewed Ebola outbreak inside a coronavirus pandemic, spotlighting a lethal trade-off for poorer nations.

The International Monetary Fund agreed to lend South Africa $4.3 billion, the largest loan any African country has received since the start of the coronavirus crisis, underscoring the force of the pandemic’s blow to the continent’s most developed economy.

Lauded in the early stages of the pandemic for taking decisive steps to limit Covid-19 infections, South Africa is now battling one of the world’s fastest-growing outbreaks that is overpowering hospitals and has caused a dramatic increase in deaths.

Ethiopia’s prime minister said negotiations with Egypt and Sudan had paved the way for an agreement over the country’s hydroelectric dam on one of the Nile River’s tributaries, in a sign of progress in efforts to end a decadelong dispute over management of the river’s waters.

The North African country has seen a rise in kidnappings and torture of migrants by militias, who extort ransom payments from desperate family members, according to aid groups.

Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly’s death unravels the government’s succession plan, testing the stability of one of the world’s fastest-growing economies.

Inside one of the world’s toughest lockdowns, a glittering trade for illicit product is booming. In recent months, record amounts of gold from the conflict zones of Eastern Congo have been smuggled across the border with Uganda before being shipped to international markets.

Zimbabwe’s stock exchange had served as a refuge of sorts, protecting the African country’s investor class from surging inflation. Its subsequent shutdown is the latest financial contortion in a country with a history of monetary dysfunction.

Egypt is attempting to raise international pressure on Ethiopia to strike a deal on the use of water from the Nile, which sustains life for tens of millions of people, as Addis Ababa prepares to begin filling a massive hydroelectric dam on a branch of the river this month.

Hundreds of militants have been killed as the world’s most-deadly jihadist groups battle for supremacy in a 3,000-mile expanse touching Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast and Chad.

Medical teams are now focusing on a new Ebola flare-up on the other side of the country, along with a measles epidemic and a growing number of coronavirus cases.

Pierre Nkurunziza, Burundi’s longtime leader, died unexpectedly of heart failure, the government said, weeks after an election confirmed his chosen successor.

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s health ministry reported a fresh cluster of Ebola infections in the country’s northwest.

Soumaïla Cissé was taken amid a surge of killings and kidnappings during a detente between al Qaeda and Islamic State in West Africa.