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HRW has urged Ivory Coast authorities to carry out a "credible investigation" of a militia chief whom rights groups suspect of playing a key role in deadly post election violence in 2011.
Nigeria says it would release several suspects held for "terrorist activities", including all women in custody, in what it called a peace gesture to the Islamists it is battling in the north.
The UN says it is working to contain a cholera outbreak in Niger in a refugee camp for people fleeing the conflict in Mali.
Guinea's opposition has threatened to prevent parliamentary elections taking place on June 30 unless the SA company responsible for managing the electoral roll is replaced, its leader says.
The Nigerian military has arrested 120 suspected Boko Haram militants in Borno State, in a sweep to curb the insurgency in the country’s north-east, the army says.
Nigeria's military says it has re-established control in five remote areas of the northeast where Islamist insurgents had seized territory, as it pressed on with a sweeping offensive against Boko Haram militants.
The foreign affairs minister of Burkina Faso says talks will soon resume with a Tuareg rebel group whose influence has been growing in northern Mali.
Nigeria's military says its offensive against insurgents in the country’s restive northeast has killed at least 14 suspected Islamic extremists and three soldiers.
Four people have died and 30 others injured in a stampede in a popular church in Ghana, caused by an offer of free anointing water, police say.
A militia chief in Ivory Coast, suspected of taking part in deadly post-election violence in 2011, has been arrested in his western stronghold.
Nigeria's military has said on it has killed 10 insurgents and arrested 65 as part of an offensive meant to wrest back control of parts of its remote northeast from an Islamist group.
France will buy two medium-altitude Reaper drones from the United States air force to back up its operations against Islamists in Mali, a report says.
A Nigerian court has sentenced two officials from a pharmaceutical company to seven years in prison, over the sale of an adulterated teething drug that killed 84 babies in 2008.
A sweeping offensive against Boko Haram Islamists has left dozens of insurgents dead, the defence ministry says, as the military pressed on with air raids and ground assaults across three states.
Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamists could face charges of crimes against humanity, the UN's human rights office has warned.
