Dozens of people have been shot dead since Friday in an area in northeast Ethiopia, the subject of an old territorial dispute between two administrative regions of the country, representatives of each said, rejecting the responsibility for violence.
In Nigeria, more than 1,800 inmates escaped from a prison in the southeastern city of Owerri after an attack by men armed with rocket grenades, machine guns, explosives and guns.
Nigerian police suspect the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, a banned separatist group in Nigeria, to be behind the attack, but a spokesperson has denied any involvement.
At 77, Denis Sassou Nguesso was definitively elected president of Congo-Brazzaville for a fourth term, according to a judgment of the Constitutional Court which ruled "inadmissible" the appeals of opponents calling for the cancellation of the ballot.
Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara on Tuesday appointed a new government, with his younger brother Téné Birahima Ouattara in the strategic post of Minister of Defense, a month after his party's victory in the legislative elections.
In Benin, the government spokesman refutes the accusations of the former judge of the Court of repression of economic offenses and terrorism.
Essowé Batamoussi, on the run, denounced in the Journal de l 'Afrique de France 24 a justice "under the orders" of power.
Finally, meeting with the first black woman in South Africa as a helicopter pilot.
Since then, she has trained hundreds of young women in the aeronautical professions.
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