[Deutsche Welle] President Pierre Nkurunziza's attempts at a third term in office have led to months of unrest and a failed coup attempt. Some observers fear a return to civil war.
[Al Jazeera] A suicide bomber has struck outside a main crowded market in Chad's capital, killing 17 people and injuring scores of others, a police spokesman told Al Jazeera.
[UN News] The top United Nations official in Somalia has condemned "in the strongest terms" a series of deadly terrorist attacks against an African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) base and two hotels in the country capital of Mogadishu which resulted in numerous casualties.
[Dalsan Radio] Somali attorney general Dr. Ahmed Ali Dahir is in Hague, Holland, to file case against Kenya over disputed maritime border to the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
[The Conversation Africa] Many were surprised when Mali - a budding democratic success story after three open elections and two peaceful transitions of power - imploded with a separatist insurgency, a military coup, and the breakdown of state control in 2012.
[News24Wire] South Africa has shipped more than 13 tons of gold worth more than R6bn to Iran, despite the UN-backed sanctions on trade with that country, the Times reported on Friday.
[The Conversation Africa] It is critically important that we decolonise South Africa's universities. This will involve creating a radically altered curriculum and producing a genuinely diversified academic population.
