(Kenya’s plan to close the world’s largest refugee camp could be a bid to trigger more international aid as well as a “cynical” political move ahead of presidential elections, according to analysts and NGOs.)

(L’armée nigériane a annoncé jeudi avoir retrouvé une deuxième rescapée parmi les 219 lycéennes de Chibok kidnappées par Boko Haram, peu après que le président Muhammadu Buhari eut considéré avoir “de nouveaux espoirs” de retrouver d’autres otages, deux ans après le rapt.)

(Somalia’s chief diplomat has lauded Kenya as a progressive government that will uphold its commitments under international law.)

(Over the weekend, Camp Kigali was a hive of activity in readiness to host the World Economic Forum for Africa which is set to kick off on Wednesday this week.)

(Protesters angered by a change in municipal boundaries which they fear will leave them worse off for social services torched 13 schools in South Africa’s northern Limpopo province on Thursday, police said, as tensions rise ahead of local elections in August.)

(People with albinism in Malawi are at risk of “systemic extinction” due to relentless attacks fuelled by superstitions, the United Nations’ top expert on albinism said this week during her first official visit in her new role.)

(La Cour de cassation de Ouagadougou a annulé le mandat d’arrêt international lancé par la justice militaire contre l’ex-président burkinabé Blaise Compaoré et le président de l’assemblée nationale de Côte d’Ivoire Guillaume Soro, a-t-on appris jeudi de source judiciaire à Ouagadougou.)

(AT ministerial level, Uganda has chosen Tanga Port in Tanzania as the suitable route to export its crude oil from Hoima given approving scientific reasons put forward by technical teams in Kampala)

(The 5th Tana Forum on security in Africa ended Sunday with deliberations on a range of issues related to peace and security on the continent.)

(UNICEF said on Tuesday that the number of children used as suicide bombers across the Lake Chad region has risen 10-fold since 2014, adding that 75 percent of these minors had been girls.)