Fallout from the strikes – alongside a monthslong internet cut imposed by the government – is spurring mass job losses and business closures.

After protests last week by cocoa farmers in Ivory Coast, the country's Coffee and Cocoa Council is sending a delegation to M'Batto try to calm the situation.

A Nigerian court on Wednesday sentenced former power minister Saleh Mamman to 75 years in jail for siphoning off millions of dollars from hydro-electricity projects.

Human Rights Watch says M23 rebels and Rwandan forces carried out a brutal month-long occupation of Uvira in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, marked by summary executions, rape and enforced disappearances.

Parliament&#x2019s ad hoc committee investigating underworld infiltration in the criminal justice system has been granted a sixth deadline, now extended to 12 June.

The announcement comes as the country's energy sector faces serious challenges, including frequent power outages.

Tunisian authorities have temporarily banned the local branch of prominent international NGO Avocats Sans Frontieres, the branch said on Tuesday, days after another leading group was targeted by a similar measure.

Burkina Faso's military rulers ordered on Tuesday the dissolution of around 200 associations, the latest clampdown on civic groups in the west African country.

Political parties and analysts in Ethiopia are now deeming it illegal for the leader of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) to serve as the head of the local parliament.

South Africa hit back Wednesday against charges of xenophobia after protests against undocumented migrants and said African nations should address issues like instability and bad governance causing their people to leave.