Amadou Diallo, a Guinean man, was killed by NYPD officers 21 years ago. Today protesters still invoke his name as they fight for justice

UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet has urged countries to make amends for ‘centuries of violence and discrimination’.

The conflict has since swept into the centre of Mali and spilled into neighbouring Burkina Faso and Niger, inflaming ethnic tensions.

Early on Friday, a migrant tried to hang himself, the group said.

The Cameroonian government neither confirmed nor denied the meeting had been held, but a senior UN official told AFP that it took place.

Talks last month broke down after the three countries failed to reach any compromise.

Armed men have killed at least 30 villagers in Mali in simultaneous attacks on several villages in the centre of the country, local officials have said.

Former London Marathon winner Wilson Kipsang is banned for four years for anti-doping rule violations.

Hit by runaway hyperinflation and a rapidly devaluing currency, Zimbabweans are watching their earnings evaporate.

The motorcycle taxi rider’s bike had been seized for carrying passengers against coronavirus restrictions.

‘If things are not definitively clarified, our relations are likely to suffer one way or another,’ says Kagame.

South Africa’s women’s football coach Desiree Ellis welcomes a new Women’s Champions League, but regrets the loss of a Women’s Afcon.

The coronavirus pandemic has halted Nollywood productions, costing millions.

Transparency campaigners have long accused Gertler of having used his friendship with Kabila to obtain lucrative mineral rights at bargain prices.

A probe was opened in France in 1998 after a complaint by families of the French plane crew.

Without enough supplies of oxygen or staff, health workers in South Africa are making some difficult decisions.

A selection of the week’s best photos from across the continent.

They were killed resisting French forces in the 19th Century and their skulls displayed in a museum.

Évariste Ndayishimiye’s first speech as president, and the conspicuous absence of Burundi’s main opposition leader, do not bode well for democracy

The African Union’s human rights boss has expressed grave concerns about the erosion of human rights during and after the Covid-19 pandemic.

Like flotsam you float from one unknown place to another, to seek and establish equilibrium — only to have it all disrupted by a pandemic