US President Donald Trump says he will sue the BBC for up to $5bn over the Panorama edit of his 6 January speech, despite the corporation apologising but refusing compensation. The controversy has triggered top BBC resignations and renewed debate over media accuracy and political defamation
A former top lawyer in the Israeli military has been arrested over the leaking of a video that shows severe abuse of a Palestinian detainee by Israeli soldiers
The Maldives has banned young people born on or after 1 January 2007 from smoking tobacco, becoming the only country in the world to enforce a nationwide generational tobacco prohibition
The Nigerian police have fired tear gas to disperse protesters who had gathered in the capital, Abuja, over the continued detention of separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu
Madagascar's coup leader Colonel Michael Randrianirina was sworn in as president on Friday days after taking control of the island nation in the wake of youth-led protests that forced out his predecessor
Tens of thousands in Raila Odinga’s political heartland, Kisumu, gathered as his body lay in state after a state funeral in Nairobi following his death in India
