PM Abiy Ahmed appoints Getachew Reda as president of northern Tigray region's interim administration, just a day after parliament removed TPLF rebel group from an official list of terrorist organisations.
Democratic Republic of Congo's former vice president between 2003 and 2006 was imprisoned by the International Criminal Court for more than a decade, but was acquitted of several charges in 2018.
The latest incident in the Mediterranean is the fifth shipwreck in two days, raising the total number of missing to 67 amid a sharp increase in boats heading towards Italy.
Paul Rusesabagina, hero of "Hotel Rwanda" and a vocal critic of Paul Kagame government, is freed and handed over to Qatar's ambassador in Kigali before he returns to US, officials say.
Niger troops started an anti-militant operation that included an incursion into Mali after they were attacked by an "armed terrorist group", according to the country's defence ministry.
At least 14 people were killed and many others were forced to flee in southern Somalia due to the floods even as other parts of the country experience severe drought.
Saturday's deadly drone attack in the country's third largest city of Taez follows clashes in Marib province earlier this week that killed soldiers, military sources said.
Those pardoned by interim president Mahamat Idriss Deby are among hundreds of the Front for Change and Concord in Chad members sentenced to life in prison over "terrorism acts."
