Police in Mauritius imposed an overnight curfew overnight to quell the worst riots to break out on the Indian Ocean island in decades. Protests over water shortages and the high cost of living that started a week ago erupted into…

Former Congolese President Joseph Kabila has been named the leader of a new rebel coalition seeking to oust the government. The Front for the Refoundation of the Nation (FRN) said it aimed to coordinate “resistance forces” to end “tyranny” in…

Campaign group Human Rights Watch (HRW) says the deportation of migrants from the US to third-party African countries is against the law and exploits suffering to deter migration. “Many, if not most” of the deportees have no practical option but…

Several of the rebel groups which have been fighting the Ethiopian authorities in different parts of the country have announced they have formed an alliance to remove the government in Addis Ababa. The alliance brings together the Fano militia in…

For Ndaikech Ali, who has been traversing the streets of the Kenyan capital eking out a living as a tuk-tuk driver for the past nine years, Nairobi’s traffic – not xenophobia – has been his biggest concern. During his time…

China’s foreign ministry has told its citizens to leave the southern African kingdom of Eswatini over “security risks”. The ministry cited “rampant cyber fraud and criminal activities associated with gambling” as among its security concerns, but did not give details.…