The death toll from floods that have devastated many parts of Kenya has almost doubled to 120, a government official said on Tuesday. More than 89,000 households have also been displaced and are being sheltered in over 112 camps, top interior ministry official Raymond Omollo said in a statement.

Winding gear at a giant South African platinum mine failed sending an elevator into a precipitous fall that killed 11 workers and injured 75, the operators said Tuesday.

Sierra Leonean authorities were treating clashes that killed 21 people in the capital Freetown at the weekend as a failed coup attempt, officials told reporters on Tuesday.

Kenya has emerged as a global leader in renewable energy: almost 90 percent of its electricity now comes from green sources. Since the 1980s, the government has focused on geothermal – which now generates a third of the country’s electricity. But Nairobi is also emerging as a global leader in …

Mali’s judiciary has announced an investigation into several ethnic separatists and Al-Qaeda-linked jihadist leaders for terrorism and money laundering, as security deteriorates in the country.

La justice malienne a annoncé, mardi, l’ouverture d’une enquête contre des leaders terroristes et d’autres membres signataires de l’accord » de paix de 2015 à Bamako pour des « actes de terrorisme, financement du terrorisme et détention illégale d’armes de guerre ».

Sierra Leone is now treating Sunday’s clashes that killed 21 people in the capital Freetown as a failed coup attempt. 13 military officers and one civilian are under arrest. Meanwhile, 11 miners lost their lives in South Africa when an elevator carrying 86 workers plunged 200 metres in a platinum mine. …

De hauts responsables sierra-léonais ont estimé mardi que les troubles qui ont fait 21 morts dimanche à Freetown étaient le fruit d’une tentative de coup d’Etat, impliquant des soldats et des gardes de l’ancien président Ernest Bai Koroma.

Armed groups carried out a major attack against an army detachment in the northern Burkina Faso town of Djibo, security sources told AFP on Tuesday. 

It’s a highly prized ingredient in Asian cuisine, but it’s also a source of economic unrest for fishermen on the south coast of South Africa. The abalone, a mollusc with a pearly shell, used to be abundant – but now, after decades of overfishing and growing demand for the animal, …