A court in Mali’s capital Bamako on Thursday began hearing a long-delayed case against former coup leader Amadou Sanogo, who is accused of killing 21 elite soldiers, AFP journalists said. A former army captain, Sanogo and several other plotters staged a military coup against President Amadou Toumani Toure in the Sahel state in 2012, after […]

Ivory Coast’s Prime Minister Hamed Bakayoko died Wednesday following cancer treatment in a German hospital, President Alassane Ouattara said in a statement. Bakayoko had turned 56 on Monday. Ouattara called Bakayoko “my son and close collaborator, torn from us too soon,” in a statement read on public television RTI. Bakayoko took over as prime minister […]

Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez helped smuggle tons of cocaine into the United States, a US prosecutor said Tuesday at the trial of an accused drug trafficker. That defendant, Geovanny Fuentes, bribed the president with $25,000 in cash and this made Fuentes “untouchable,” prosecutor Jacob Gutwillig said in opening arguments at the New York federal […]

Tanzania’s minister for legal affairs on Thursday threatened those spreading “nonsense” rumours over the health of President John Magufuli with jail, without offering details of the leader’s whereabouts. Tanzania’s opposition leader Tundu Lissu has demanded information on where Magufuli is, suggesting the president is sick with Covid-19 and fuelling a storm of rumours on social […]

The government of Morocco, the world’s top producer of hashish, ratified Thursday a draft law to legalise the medical use of cannabis but upheld a ban on its recreational use. Parliament, however, still needs to give its final approval to the legislation. The draft law calls for the creation of a national agency to regulate […]