Former Dakar bureau chief covering geopolitical shifts and economic developments across the continent.
Health officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the African Union's public health agency say they are investigating whether the Bundibugyo Ebola virus is mutating, as the country's outbreak becomes its largest on record and confirmed cases pass 4,000.
Todd Blanche, the US deputy attorney general, has formally dropped a proposal for a fund reported at up to $1.8bn (around €1.6bn) that could have compensated people the Trump administration says were wrongly targeted by federal investigators, including some prosecuted over the 6 January 2021 Capitol riot.
Seven armed gunmen have hijacked the MT Asana in the Gulf of Aden, the second such seizure off the Yemeni coast since May and part of a sharply accelerating wave of Somali piracy that security analysts say naval forces are struggling to contain.