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Ghana’s cedi has weakened every year since at least 1994. Now the central bank appears to have drawn a line in the sand, ready to intervene should the currency slip out of the tight range it’s held since May. The Bank of Ghana has sold…

Kenya's county governments will send most staff on leave as they stop non-essential services because of a lack of money caused by an ongoing stalemate over the distribution of central government funds. The council of governors on Wednesday…

Ivory Coast will not recognise Tuesday's ruling by the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights that allowed former Prime Minister, Guillaume Soro to run in next month's elections. Government spokesperson Sidi Tiémoko Touré said the…

Police in Uganda say the severed head a child - carried by a man who had attempted to gain access to parliament on Monday - belongs to a headless body found in Masaka, south-west of the capital, Kampala. The man who carried the gruesome…

The UN children's agency Unicef has "expressed deep concern" over the imprisonment and treatment of a 13-year-old boy convicted for blasphemy. In August, Omar Farouq was sentenced to 10 years in prison with menial labour by a Sharia court…

Lamine Diack, the ex-head of athletics' governing body, has been jailed after being found guilty of corruption. The Senegalese, 87, faced corruption and money-laundering charges linked to the Russian doping scandal. Diack was…

Zineb Jammeh, the wife of Gambia’s former president, Yahya Jammeh, has been hit with U.S. sanctions for her role in the economic plunder of the tiny West African county during her husband’s 22-year rule, the U.S. Treasury said on Tuesday.…

A section of police officers in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, have been buying their own uniforms from civilian tailors to comply with an alleged order to wear new-look uniforms despite lack of supplies, local media report. The police officers…

Algerian journalist Khaled Drareni received a two-year prison sentence at his appeal hearing on Tuesday for his coverage of the anti-government protests. Rights groups have condemned the verdict as an attack on press freedom as the…