Category: Rest of Africa

The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) urged the African Union (AU) and southern Africa's regional bloc to help mediate a solution to the crisis that followed last Wednesday's vote.

"China is closely following the developing situation in Gabon," Foreign Ministry Spokesman Wang Wenbin said.

"President Ali Bongo is under house arrest, surrounded by his family and doctors," they said in a statement read out on state TV.

President Mnangagwa was on Saturday declared winner of the August 23 to 24 presidential election elections with 52.6 percent of the vote. His main rival Nelson Chamisa, who garnered 44 percent, refused to endorse the outcome saying the poll was rigged.

An opponent of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, Bekele said conditions in Africa's second most populous nation were worsening, adding that he had resigned from his position as vice-president of the Oromo Federalist Congress (OFC), the main opposition party in Oromia region.

The UN peacekeeping mission, known as Minusma, has until December 31 to exit Mali after a decade of struggling to stabilize the country's security environment amid separatist and militia rebellions.

As Abdel Fattah al-Burhan departed, medics and witnesses said 39 civilians were killed, most of them women and children, in shelling of Nyala, Sudan's second city in South Darfur state where fighting between the army and paramilitary forces has intensified.

Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa won a second term in office, election officials said Saturday, but the opposition rejected the result of a vote that international observers said fell short of democratic standards.

Since July 26, Niger has been in the eye of storm after the military toppled an elected President, earning itself sanctions from Ecowas.

The Southern African country held chaotic elections on Wednesday, which spilled to the next day due to late printing of ballot papers for polling stations in some wards in opposition strongholds.