Tanzania has approved the construction of a pipeline that would allow Ugandan oil to be delivered to international markets, dismissing environmental concerns about the project as “propaganda”.

Tropical Cyclone Freddy made landfall on Madagascar Tuesday evening, killing at least one person as it brought massive storm surges and wind gusts of up to 180 kilometers per hour that ripped roofs off houses.

Tunisia’s President Kais Saied denounced undocumented sub-Saharan African immigration to his country on Tuesday, saying in comments criticised by rights groups that it was aimed at changing Tunisia’s demographic make-up.

Three UN peacekeepers were killed and five were seriously injured when their convoy struck a roadside bomb in central Mali.

The death toll from a jihadi attack on a Burkina Faso army unit in the north of the country last week has risen to 51, military officials said Monday, after 43 new bodies were found.

The rise of Peter Obi in the campaign for Nigeria’s presidential election on February 25 has shaken up the country’s politics, hitherto dominated by two major parties since the end of military rule in 1999. But analysts say that Obi still faces an uph…