(President Obama launched a personal push for peace in South Sudan on Monday, convening African leaders for urgent talks in neighboring Ethiopia aimed at keeping the world’s newest nation from collapsing amid civil war.)

(The U.S. is in talks with North African countries about positioning drones at a base on their soil to ramp up surveillance of Islamic State in Libya in what would be the most significant expansion of the campaign against the extremist group…

(The European Union on Monday approved €1.15 billion in aid for West Africa through to 2020, nearly doubling its previous commitment to a region that is a major source of migrants seeking to enter Europe.)

(A suicide bombing in a church in the Nigerian village of Potiskum on Sunday that killed the priest and four congregants marked the end of a particularly violent week during which 200 people were killed in the African nation.)

(Des dizaines de personnes ont été tuées mercredi soir dans le nord-est du Nigeria, dans une opération attribuée aux islamistes de Boko Haram, apprend-on jeudi de diverses sources.)  

(Nairobi, Kenya, is gearing up for President Obama‘s coming visits, and the people there have high hopes that the visit will pave the way for more tourism.)

(Le ministre de la Présidence Jeff Radebe a annoncé que “l’Afrique du Sud pourrait en dernier recours envisager de se retirer de la CPI”.Cette déclaration fait suite à la polémique qu’a suscité la non-arrestation du président soudanais Omar el-Béchir par les autorités…

(African Union chairman, President Robert Mugabe on Tuesday harshly criticized the worldwide Criminal Court after Sudan’s president dodged an worldwide arrest order by leaving early from a meeting of the continent’s leaders in South Africa, a news agency reported.)

(There’s no shortage of people asking for Rwandan President Paul Kagame to extend his time in office. Some 3.7 million Rwandans — nearly three quarters of registered voters — allegedly signed a petition calling on Kagame to stay past his 2017 term…

(Al-Qaeda in North Africa has denied reports its former leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar was killed in a US air strike last week in Libya, in a statement posted online overnight.)