Sudanese security forces shot dead an anti-coup protester on Wednesday as American diplomats visited Khartoum seeking to help end a crisis which has claimed dozens of lives and derailed the country's democratic transition.

The Namibian High Court is set to rule on an application for the right of non-Namibian same-sex spouses to live and work in the country.

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Kenyan police said they have launched an investigation after badly decomposed bodies, some of which bore signs of torture, were found in a river.

Police in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have detained members of a group allegedly linked to the killing of Italy's ambassador last year as well as more recent kidnappings of NGO workers, a provin

Guinea's deposed former president has sought medical treatment in the United Arab Emirates having left the country earlier this week, the ruling junta said on Tuesday.

Nigeria has been gripped by the mysterious death of an 11-year-old boy enrolled at a top boarding school, a case that has sparked family accusations of a coverup and a presidential call for justice.

Four French soldiers were wounded in an improvised explosive device blast in northern Burkina Faso, France's military told AFP on Tuesday evening.

At least 10 people have died in flash floods triggered by torrential rain that battered Madagascar's capital Antananarivo overnight, an interior ministry official said.

A total of 13 countries drawn from central, across northern Sub-Saharan Africa, Central America, the Middle East, Asia and the Caribbean will get a share of the R2.4 billion ($150 million).

The US has appointed a new ambassador to Sudan at a time when its special envoy to the Horn of Africa is meeting Sudanese civic society in Saudi Arabia.

The lawyer of an outlawed Nigerian separatist leader, whose trial is due to resume on Tuesday, accused authorities of extending his client's time in custody by filing new charges against him.

Mali has asked France for a review of bilateral defence accords against the backdrop of growing tensions between Paris and the ruling junta in Bamako, a French diplomat said Monday.

Kenya's highest court began on Tuesday weighing a legal bid to revive government plans to shake up the country's political system, just months ahead of crucial elections.

Sudanese forces opened fire killing seven protesters on Monday in one of the deadliest recent mass rallies against a military coup, with UN Security Council members urging Khartoum to exercise the "utmost restraint".

"If I work for a year [in the UK], I will likely make more than I ever made in 23 years working as a teacher in Zim. I really love teaching, it's my calling but my family can't eat that. If by any chance things change, perhaps under a new government ...

At least 15 people have died in separate attacks by armed groups in DR Congo's troubled northeastern province of Ituri, local sources and monitors said on Monday.

Tanzania and Burundi have signed an agreement to construct a $900 million railway line linking the two countries and are looking for financial backers for the project, Tanzania's finance ministry said in a statement issued late on Sunday.

The hero of "Hotel Rwanda" failed to appear in a Kigali court on Monday as State prosecutors sought to increase his sentence on terrorism charges from 25 years to life.

Two people have died and two others were injured in a collapse at French nuclear group Orano's COMINAK uranium mine in Niger, COMINAK said in a statement on Sunday.