assassination

The Kenyan police has used tear gas to disperse a delegation of opposition politicians who wanted to visit the president's office in the capital Nairobi, in a day of anti-government protests without major incident. Elected officials from…

The political climate remains tense in Senegal, after his politically charged trial sparked deadly unrest last week, Ousmane Sonko addressed his supporters Monday. The country’s main opposition leader claimed he survived an assassination…

Burkina Faso's former president Blaise Compaore, the main accused in a long-awaited trial on the 1987 assassination of his predecessor Thomas Sankara, will boycott the upcoming proceedings, according to his lawyers. In the trial opening…

The UN secretary-general's Special Envoy for Libya Jan Kubis has condemned an assassination attempt on the UN-backed government's Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha in the capital city of Tripoli. "Special Envoy for Libya Jan Kubis…