Five

Niger's land and air borders with five neighbouring countries have been reopened, almost a week after they were closed in a coup that overthrew elected president Mohamed Bazoum, one of the coup plotters announced. "The land and air…

Five people have been shot and killed in Johannesburg in suspected violence between rival gangs of illegal miners, police said. The five bodies, believed to be those of illegal miners, were found near an abandoned mine shaft near a…

Saudi Arabia executed five men, four Saudis and an Egyptian, accused of attacking a place of worship, authorities said. This brings to 68 the number of executions since the beginning of the year in the kingdom, one of the countries which…

At least five people were killed After a boat capsized in southern Ghana's Lake Volta on Saturday morning, local authorities confirmed. Daniel Adzakpa, a member of assembly Azizakpe Electoral Area, said the passenger boat carrying about…

A group of human rights NGOs urged the Burundian authorities to release five human rights defenders arrested on charges of rebellion and undermining state security "immediately" and to stop "intimidating" civil society. The activists…

Five of the six men charged with murdering Italy's ambassador to the DRC in 2021 requested acquittal on Saturday, during a hearing in the capital, Kinshasa. Last Wednesday, the prosecution wrapped up its case and demanded the death…

Militants stormed a regional government office in Somalian capital on Sunday, and five civilians were killed, the government said. The founder of the Aamin ambulance service, Abdulkadir Adan, told Press, that his team collected 16…

Five soldiers and 30 "terrorists" were killed in fighting in northern Burkina Faso after the suspected jihadists attacked a military base in large numbers, the army said. Troops in Bourzanga, a town in the northern region which has been…

Mozambique is on the verge of securing the first loan in five years from the International Monetary Funds. The IMF stated that “discussions will begin next year on an extended credit facility, the first since it suspended the southern…

Five people were killed when a cargo plane carrying fuel for the UN's World Food Programme crashed near South Sudan's capital Juba, airport officials said. The aircraft a Soviet-era Antonov An-26 transport plane crashed shortly after…