Less than three months after it was released, Nigeria’s broadcast regulator has banned This Is Nigeria, an adaptation of Childish Gambino’s This Is America hit track. The track and video by Falz, a Nigerian rapper, tackled Nigeria’s many ills ranging from corruption to nepotism and insecurity with several witty lines and references, just like Childish Gambino’s original.

How a brutal ethnic cleansing campaign in DRC was made worse by Trump's "America First" policies and the world's neglect.

Three Russian journalists investigating a private security firm have been killed in the Central African Republic.

An Egyptian court sentenced 75 people to death on Saturday, including top figures of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group, for their involvement in a 2013 sit-in, state media reported. The Cairo Criminal Court referred the sentences to the Grand Mufti — the country's top theological authority — for his non-binding opinion as is the norm in capital cases. Though non-binding, the formality gives a window of opportunity for a judge to reverse an initial sentence.

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The t-shirt representation of human evolution as a sequence of hunched primates standing tall is a popular cliché.

A self-styled traditional healer in Nigeria has died after one of his clients tested his "bullet-proof" charms on him. Chinaka Adoezuwe, 26, was killed after instructing the man to shoot him as he was wearing the charms around his neck. Police in the country's south-eastern Imo state say the client has been arrested on suspicion of murder.

A ranger discovered human remains close to a pride of lions while taking guests on a safari drive at the reserve on Tuesday. “We suspect two were killed, possibly three,” owner Nick Fox told NBC News. An ax, shoes, and gloves were found later when police and an anti-poaching unit arrived. The lions had reportedly been heard making noise in the early morning hours on Monday.

Bread, weapons, and human remains were found scattered around the lions’ camp in a South African game reserve.

The news coming out of East Africa's Virunga Mountains these days would have made the late (and legendary) conservationist Dian Fossey very happy. According to the most recent census, the mountain gorillas introduced to the world in Gorillas in the Mist, Fossey's book and the film about her work, have grown their ranks from 480 animals in 2010 to 604 as of June 2016. Add another couple hundred apes living in scattered habitats to the south, and their population as a whole totals more than 1,000. Believe it or not, this makes the mountain gorilla subspecies the only great apes known to be increasing in number.

For decades, China's presence in Africa has largely focused on economic, commercial and peacekeeping activities. Now, Beijing is building on that by establishing greater military links to protect its national assets on the continent and gain greater geopolitical influence. The People's Liberation Army conducts regular joint training exercises across the region and, in certain countries that are home to major Chinese infrastructure projects under the Belt and Road initiative, the communist state has been especially active.

This Anglophone crisis conflict is a major test as Cameroon prepares for October elections.

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There has been a blast at a rally for Ethiopia's new PM Abiy Ahmed attended by thousands of people in Addis Ababa.

A 19-year-old Sudanese woman has been sentenced to death for fatally stabbing the man she was forced to marry, who she says raped her as his relatives held her down. The case of Noura Hussein has shone a spotlight on the issues of forced marriage and marital rape in Sudan, where the legal age of marriage is only 10 and marital rape is legal.

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Trophy hunters are to be be allowed to kill more than a thousand hippos over the next five years in Zambia. The cull, in the Luangwa River region, is a bid to control numbers and stop the spread of anthrax, the country's government insists. Authorities plan to allow 250 hippos a year to be killed, with one safari company already offering tourists the chance to kill up to five of the animals each.

Two of the three patients who were taken from the treatment centre for prayers have died.

Police in Cameroon arrested 25 alleged homosexuals last night at a gay-friendly bar and a gay cinema in Yaoundé, the capital city. Two of them were released after questioning. The other 23 will remain incarcerated awaiting court action on Monday.   Yaoundé’s Essos district by night. (Photo courtesy of Camer.be) By Steeves Winner Just after …