Rukmini Callimachi

Senegal’s presidential candidates have held their final rallies as protesters marched in the streets. Tensions are high ahead of Sunday’s poll.

Protesters have seized control of a three-block stretch in Senegal’s capital Dakar as they demand the departure of aging President Abdoulaye Wade.

Senegalese police have killed at least one person during a protest against a court ruling allowing the nation’s leader to run for another term.

Foreign military intervention has caused too much suffering in Africa, says the AU’s chair, in a message seen as a jab at Nato’s airstrikes in Libya.

UN investigators in Côte d’Ivoire have determined there were at least 68 bodies in a mass grave discovered on a soccer field in Abidjan.

The government of Alassane Ouattara said on Monday rebels allied with their leader had seized a nearly 50km corridor along Côte d’Ivoire’s border.

The United Nations said armed men blocked about 60 families without food or water from leaving a church in Abidjan on Tuesday.

Former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo made an unannounced visit to Côte d’Ivoire, arriving late on Saturday for a meeting with Laurent Gbagbo.

Less than 24 hours before Guinea’s elections results were due, one of the candidates said he would not accept the outcome.